POSITION OF TEWFIK AFTER THE MUTINY. 455 plain, good sense, he probably assessed at its true value, as being a proof of his people's satisfaction at their own well-being, rather than as a tribute of gratitude to their Sovereign. However, to a Prince, who had had so small a share of the pleasures of Royalty as the late Khedive, any display of enthusiasm could not fail to be gratifying, and one may reasonably hope that the comparative comfort and peace of his later years made some atonement for the sufferings and humiliations he had had of necessity to undergo during the earlier years of his reign.

The death of Tewfik shared the sort of incompleteness which characterized his life. He had surmounted the chief obstacles which had hitherto stood in the way of his earning the recognition due to his sterling merits; he had acquired the confidence and respect of the officials, native as well as foreign, with whom he came into contact ; and he had outlived the unpopularity which attached to him amongst his own people as a Sovereign maintained upon the throne by the presence of British troops. He was still in the prime of life ; he enjoyed good health, and, it is believed, genuine domestic happiness ; and then he died. In the early days of 1892, he had gone to his villa at Helouan, a favourite resort of his, which owed its first repute as a fashionable bathing-place to his patronage. While staying there he was attacked by a mild form of influenza, and three days later the news came that he was dead. All over the East, when a man of high rank or wealth dies suddenly, it