... lands and peoples he visited in anofficial capacity and wrote about over the course of his career – Egypt,the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. As anadministrative and authorial ... shall be-come a shell, and the shell a fish, and the fish a bird, and the bird a beast; and then he shall become a man again, and see the glory of thelatter days’’ ( – ); and so Alton ‘‘passed, ... die; and as we looked into each other’s eyes, and claspedeach other’s hands above the dead man’s face, we felt that there was lovebetween us, as of Jonathan and David, passing the love of woman....