ound sportsman, and in the first
weeks of December, 1880, had played at Mhow and Indore in the
interesting polo matches between the 29th Regiment and the station of
Indore, both matches being won by Indore, notwithstanding a good fight
by the Regimental team, headed by Major Ruxton.

On the 7th January, 1881, he read and played with the Chiefs and
Thakores of the Rajkumar class of his College; on the evening of the
8th he played lawn-tennis in the Residency garden, when he caught a
chill. The next day--Sunday--symptoms of tetanus appeared which
created anxiety among his relatives and friends. On Tuesday, the 11th
January, signs of imminent danger became apparent, and at 11 a.m. on
Wednesday, he died, some weeks before the new Governor-General's Agent
arrived at Indore.

It is a very pleasing fact that the most eloquent and very evidently
heart-felt testimony to the great and abiding worth of Abengh-Mackay's
work at Indore and far beyond, came from the very pen of Sir Lepel
Griffin in his "Report of the Central India Agency for the Year
1881-82," issued in July, 1883, as follows.--

'The death of Mr Aberigh-Mackay was for Central India, an
almost irreparable loss. The patience, tact, and enthusiasm
which he brought to his responsible educational duties were
worthy of all admiration and those young Chiefs who had the
benefit of his guidance will compare most favourably both in
acquirements and manners with any students trained under the
most favourable conditions in the colleges of British India.
It so happened that at the time Mr Mackay was in charge of
the Rajkumar College, a large number of important Chiefs
were minors, including the Rajah of Rutlam, the junior Chief
of Dewar, the Nawab of Jaora, and the two sons of His
Highness the Maharaja Holkar. At present there are no Chiefs
of the first rank in the Residency College. It will be well
if the earnestness and devotion which animated the work of
Mr. Abengh Mackay will be felt by those who succeed him.

In Elucidation No. 1--"The Viceroy"--Lord Lytton's _personal_
nomination of Abengh-Mackay to a Fellowship in the Calcutta University
has been referred to. This act of _noblesse oblige,_ in the highest
sense of the term, was happily known to Abengh-Mackay during his
lifetime.

"SOME OCCULT PHENOMENA"

In the autumn of 1880 many strange stories were afloat in India
con