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General would have sufficed to reconcile chiefs and people. No official emissary was more welcome at the courts of princes and at the shrines of the idols than the Lord Padre Sáhib, and the journal in which he records his experiences from day to day remains one of the most valuable accounts of contemporary conditions. Not least surely amongst the men who have won great honour for the name of England in India is the gentle and pious Reginald Heber, and his death was one of many sorrows which cast a gloom over the Amherst household.