310 MR. CUNNINGHAM. 



ceived indeed that the separation from a friend and 

 messmate under such circumstances, must have cast 

 for a time a shade of sadness over our minds. Mr. 

 Usborne took charge of the charts which we sent to 

 England on this occasion. 



I cannot leave Sydney without alluding to our 

 meeting with Mr. Cunningham, the Botanist, whose 

 death I have already mentioned, as having taken 

 place two months after our departure from Sydney. 

 Though worn out by disease, and evidently on the 

 brink of the grave, the fire of enthusiasm kindled 

 in his frame, and his eyes glistened as he talked of 

 our projected enterprise ; and it was with difficulty 

 that he could be dissuaded from accompanying us. 

 His name, which will be remembered by his friends 

 on account of his many amiable qualities, will not 

 be forgotten by posterity ; for it has become asso- 

 ciated with the lands he explored, as well as with 

 the natural productions he described. The presence 

 and attention of his valued friend Capt. P. P. King, 

 contributed to soothe his last moments. 



