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with Dr: Oudney, by whom his attention 
was first directed towards discoveries in 
' Africa. Dr. Oudney was appointed, in 1821, 
Consul to Bornou. He took Captain Clap- 
perton with him, asa friend and companion. 
As it was intended that researches should be 
made from Bornou, as the fixed residence 
of the Consul, to the east and to the west, 
Lieutenant (now Major) Denham was ad- 
ded to the expedition. Dr. Oudney, in an 
early stage of the journey, caught a severe 
cold, which fell on his lungs, and he died on 
the 12th of January, 1824. Captain Clap- 
perton attended him with fraternal affection 
in his dying moments ; and he saw his re- 
mains decently interred, having himself 
read over them the funeral service of the 
church of England. 
Captain Clapperton and Major Denham 
returned to their native country, and the 
narratives of their expedition were published 
in a handsome quarto volume, which, we 
doubt not, has met the perusal of nearly all 
our readers. To accompany the travellers 
is not within our limits. 
At Sackatoo, the capital of the Fetatah 
empire, Bello, the sultan, was exceedingly 
anxious for the establishment of a friendly 
intercourse with England, and for the ap~ 
pointment of a British consul and physician. 
On the latter point, he addressed a letter to 
the King of England. A reply to the re- 
quest was entrusted to Captain Clapperton, 
who, with his friend, Dr. Dickson, Captain 
Pearce, of the navy, and Dr. Morrison, a 
surgeon in the navy and a skilful naturalist, 
was despatched to Sackatoo. Captain Pearce, 
Dr. Morrison, and an English servant died 
from the effects of the climate. Dr. Dickson 
was sent in another direction; but he has 
not been heard of since the month of No- 
vember, 1825, when he was at Khydah, on 
his way to Dahomey, in company with M. 
De Sousa, a Portuguese, who had lived for 
many years at that court. 
Captain Clapperton died at Sackatoo, on 
the 13th of April, 1827. He had been de- 
tained five months in that capital; the Sul- 
tan Bello not permitting him to proceed, on 
account of his war with Bornou. Hoping to 
obtain leave to go to Timbuctoo, he had 
lived in a small circular clay hut, belonging 
to the sultan’s brother. He was attacked 
with dysentery: in the latter stages of the 
disease, he declined rapidly, and became 
much emaciated. Lander, his faithful ser- 
vant, who, after his death, got permission to 
return to England, states that, two days be- 
fore Captain Clapperton died, he requested 
to be shaved, as he was too weak tosit up. 
After the operation, he asked for a looking. 
glass, remarked that he was ‘‘ doing better,”’ 
and should certainly “get over it.”” The 
morning on which he died, he breathed 
loud, became restless, and shortly after- 
wards expired in Lander’s arms. His re- 
mains were buried by him, at Jungali, a 
village five miles south-cast from Sackatoo. 
The corpse was conveyed by a camel, and 
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the place of interment was marked by a 
small square house of clay, erected by Lan- 
der, who, with five slaves, followed his 
master to the graye. 
Lander, after encountering many difficul- 
ties and dangers, arrived in England early 
in the spring of the present year; having 
contrived to conceal a watch of his late 
master’s, which had been originally meant 
to be presented by Captain Clapperton to 
Bello, on his taking leave of that prince. 
Major Denham, should he have the good 
fortune to return safe, will be the only sur- 
viving officer of the three expeditions sent 
out by government, since the year 1821, for 
penetrating the interior of Africa: viz. one 
to Bornou, by Oudney, Denham, and Clap- 
perton; one to Timbuctoo, by Major Laing; 
and one to Sackatoo, by Clapperton and his 
companions. A Narrative of Captain Clap- 
perton’s Second Journey is now in the press; 
with the Adventures of Lander, his servant, 
from April, 1827, to January, 1828. 
M. CHORIS. 
M. Choris, painter of natural history, was 
born in Yekaténnoslaff, in Lesser Russia, 
March 22, 1795, of German parents. He 
commenced his studies at the gymnasium of 
Kharkoff, where he early displayed a talent 
for design and painting: he, besides, ac- 
quired an astonishing facility for portrait 
painting ; and his taste for voyages gained 
upon him an influence which he never lost 
sight of, in consequence of a disposition 
which he had for delineating objects of na- 
tural history. This talent procured him the 
advantage of accompanying that celebrated 
botanist, the Marshal Baron Ribertstein, in 
his travels to Mount Caucasus, in which he 
designed the plants which ornament the 
Flora Caucasiana. In 1814, he became a 
member of the Academy of Fine Arts at 
Petersburgh, and the same year he was 
chosen by Count Romanzoff to accompany 
the expedition round the world, on board 
the Rurik, commanded by Captain Otto 
Kotzebue, son of the celebrated dramatic 
writer. In this voyage, he delineated with 
the greatest skill every thing that could give 
an exact idea of the savages of America and 
the Grand Pacific Ocean ; and after passing 
four years in this voyage, he arrived in 
France in 1819, where he was warmly re- 
ceived by the most distinguished savans of 
the capital. It was by their advice he 
learned the art of lithography, on purpose 
that his designs should not lose any of their 
originality. He there published his “ Pic- 
turesque Voyage round the World,” with 
portraits of the savages of America, Asia, 
Africa, and the islands of the Pacific, &c.3 _ 
and numerous other plates descriptive of their 
arms, habiliments, ornaments, utensils, ca- 
noes, boats, houses, dances and amuse- 
ments, music and musical instruments, 
landscapes and maritime views; a variety of 
objects relative to natural history, mamife- 
rous and ornithologic; accompanied with 
