adam also appropriated public money for the encouragement of indian education. his health broke down and he left his job and he left in march 1825. after a voyage to bombay, and a visit to almorah in the lower himalayas, he embarked on a ship to return him to his parents in britain. he died off the coast of madagascar on 4 june 1825. he was buried at sea but he is memorialised on his parents tomb in greyfriars kirkyard in edinburgh.