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even to take a servant; but he pleaded the example of Sir 
Joseph Banks, as entirely obviating, in his own case, so 
trifling an objection ; his family remonstrated with him on 
the score of his health being injured from the hardships 
he would necessarily have to undergo, and from the effects 
of climate: his argument was, that he had already tried 
both, and his health had improved by the experiment. In 
short, remonstrance and persuasion were resorted to in 
vain: he persisted in his entreaties with the Admiralty _ 
and Captain Tuckey; and on the latter expressing a wish 
to take him, as one likely to be useful, in promoting the 
objects of the expedition, he was permitted to join the 
Congo as a volunteer. 
Mr. Galwey proceeded with the Captain’s party as far 
up the river as the banza Inga, where he was taken ill, 
about the 24th August, and sent off from thence to the 
vessels : but he did not reach the Congo, in his canoe, till 
the 7th September, being then in a state of great exhaus- 
tion; his countenance, by the surgeon’s account, ghastly, 
with extreme debility, and great anxiety ; a short cough, 
with hurried respiration and heaving of the chest, the pulse 
108, and very small, the body of a dirty yellow colour. 
On the following day, all the bad symptoms were encreased, 
but he was free from pain. On the 9th he became 
insensible, and expired about the middle of the day. 
His body was taken to the burial ground of the King 
of Embomma, and interred with such honours as the 
dispirited and much reduced party could bestow, by the 
side of his unfortuate companions Cranch and Tudor. 
Mr. Galwey had taken a very active part in collecting 
specimens, and making remarks on the natural products: 
