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MR. MANSEL LONGWORTH-DAMES, whose death in his seventy-second year is reported, entered the Indian Civil Service in 1868. He served in the Punjab for twenty-eight years, with an interlude in 1879, when he was on duty with the troops in the secojid Afghan war. While he was stationed in the trans-Indus districts he acquired a good knowledge of the Baluch tribes and of their language; he published a Baluchi grammar and reading-book, which were for many years used by students; an account of the Baluch race, issued by the Royal Asiatic Society; and “The Popular Poetry of the Baluchis,” published by the Folklore Society. He made a large collection of Buddhist art, which passed into the hands of the Berlin Museum, and he helped to arrange the Buddhist rooms of the British Museum. He was an active member of the Royal Asiatic Society, of which he was vice-president. He knew Arabic, Persian, and Portuguese well, and this knowledge he utilised in his new translation, with copious annotations, of “The Book of Duarte Barbosa,” published last year by the Hakluyt Society. His death leaves a gap in the small circle of oriental scholars.
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[Obituary]. Nature 109, 147 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109147b0
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