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during the voyage out, does not appear to have been in- 
fluenced by this feeling; nor was his exertions at all re- 
laxed by an occasional lowness of spirits, which was, per- 
haps, partly constitutional, and owing partly to the gloomy 
view taken of christianity by that’ sect denominated Me- 
thodists, of which, it seems, he was a member. He is re- 
presented, however, by his friends, as a sincere Christian, 
an affectionate parent, and a kind friend. 
Mr. Cranch was taken ill on the 23d August, on the 
march between the banza or town of Cooloo, and the 
banza Inga, and was carried back on the shoulders of the 
natives to Cooloo, and from thence in a hammock to the 
place of embarkation below the rapids; but it was the 
tenth day before he reached the ship in a canoe. The 
symptoms, by the surgeon's report, were an extreme languor 
and general exhaustion ; a restlessness and anxiety, 
approaching. at times to delirium, but he had no pain, 
except an uneasy sensation throughout the abdomen ; 
the countenance became of a dirty yellow colour, the 
pulse was at 108°, and very small. The next day he was 
much worse, and on the third day the whole body became 
yellow ; the countenance assumed a deadly aspect, the 
pulse at the wrist imperceptible, and in the evening he 
expired, “ after uttering,” says Mr. Fitzmaurice, “ a de- 
vout prayer for the welfare of his family, and with the 
namie of his wife quivering on his lips. He was of that 
order of dissenters,” he adds, “ who are called Methodists, 
and if I may judge from external appearances, he was an 
affectionate husband and father, a sincere friend, a pious, 
honest, and good man.” He died in the 31st year of his 
age, and was buried at Embomma by permission of the 
