acute stage, but his interest and indirect participation in the conflict survived.  In this matter a certain parental tenderness for a scheme which he had helped to originate, combined with his warm friendship for some of the principal supporters of the narrow gauge, seem to have influenced his views more than he himself was aware.  Certainly his judgment in this matter was not impartial, although, as always in his case, it was absolutely sincere and not consciously biased.

In reference to Yule’s services in the period following the Mutiny, Lord Canning’s subsequent Minute of 1862 may here be fitly quoted.  In this the Governor-General writes:  “I have long ago recorded my opinion of the value of his services in 1858 and 1859, when with a crippled and overtaxed staff of Engineer officers, many of them young and inexperienced, the G.-G. had to provide rapidly for the accommodation of a vast English army, often in districts hitherto little known, and in which the authority of the Government was barely established, and always under circumstances of difficulty and urgency.  I desire to repeat that the Queen’s army in India was then greatly indebted to Lieut.-Colonel Yule’s judgment, earnestness, and ability; and this to an extent very imperfectly understood by many of the officers who held commands in that army.

“Of the manner in which the more usual duties of his office have been discharged it is unnecessary for me to speak.  It is, I believe, known and appreciated as well by the Home Government as by the Governor-General in Council.”

In the spring of 1859 Yule felt the urgent need of a rest, and took the, at that time, most unusual step of coming home on three months’ leave, which as the voyage then occupied a month each way, left him only one month at home.  He was accompanied by his elder brother George, who had not been out of India for thirty years.  The visit home of the two brothers was as bright and pleasant as it was brief, but does not call for further notice.

In 1860, Yule’s health having again suffered, he took short leave to Java.  His journal of this tour is very interesting, but space does not admit of quotation here.  He embodied some of the results of his observations in a lecture he delivered on his return to Calcutta.

During these latter years of his service in India, Yule owed much happiness to the appreciative friendship of Lord Canning and the ready sympathy of Lady Canning.  If he shared their tours in an official capacity, the intercourse was much more than official.  The noble character of Lady Canning won from Yule such wholehearted chivalrous devotion as, probably, he felt for no other friend save, perhaps in after days, Sir Bartle Frere.  And when her health failed, it was to Yule’s special care that Lord Canning entrusted his wife during a tour in the Hills.  Lady Canning was known to be very homesick, and one day as the party came in sight of some ilexes (the evergreen oak), Yule sought to cheer her by calling out pleasantly:  “Look, Lady Canning!  There are oaks!” “No, no, Yule, not oaks,” cried Sir C. B.  “They are (solemnly) IBEXES.”  “No, not Ibexes, Sir C., you mean SILEXES,” cried Capt. ——­, the A.D.C.; Lady Canning and Yule the while almost choking with laughter.