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during the voyage out, does not appear to have beeft iii- 

 liuenced 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 

 sj'raptoms, 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 uneas}^ 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 

 name 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 



