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much the more complete; but his zeal to accomplish the 
object of the expedition had completely exhausted him, 
and brought on the return of a disorder to which he had 
Jong been subject; still he held out to the last; and there 
is very little doubt, that if the accident which happened 
to his baggage canoe had not put an end to every possi- 
bility of his proceeding much farther up the river, that he 
would have gone on till he had sunk under sickness and 
fatigue, and left his remains in the interior of the country. 
On the 17th September he reached the Congo sloop, 
and the following day, for the sake of better accommo- 
dation, was sent down to the Dorothy transport, at the 
Tall Trees. He arrived in a state of extreme exhaustion, 
brought on by fatigue, exposure to the weather, and 
srivations. He had no fever nor pain in any part of the 
body ; the pulse was small and irritable ; the skin at times 
dry, at others clammy, but never exceeding the tempera- 
ture ofhealth. On the 28th he thought himself better, and 
wholly free from pain, but shewed great irritability, which 
was kept up by his anxiety concerning the affairs of the 
expedition. On the 30th the debility, irritability, and de- 
pression of spirits became extreme, and he now expressed 
his conviction, that all attempts to restore the energy of 
his system would prove ineffectual. From this time to the 
4th, when he expired, his strength gradually failed him, 
but during the whole of his illness, he had neither pain 
nor fever; and he may be said to have died of com- 
plete exhaustion, rather than of disease. He had deceived 
himself, it seems, by the confidence which he felt in 
the strength of his constitution. The surgeon states that, 
since leaving England, he never enjoyed good health, the 
