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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 

 Iriflino- 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 Avith 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 Avas 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 



