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of the country, and more particularly on its geology ; but 

 both his journal and his collections have been lost. They 

 had met in their progress with a party of slave-dealers, 

 having in their possession a negro in fetters, from the 

 Mandingo country. From motives of humanity, and with 

 the view of returning this man to his friends and country, 

 as well as under the hope that he might become useful as 

 they proceeded, and give some account of the regions 

 through which he must have passed, as soon as he should 

 be able to speak a little EngUsh, Captain Tuckey pur- 

 chased this slave, and appointed him to attend Mr.Galwey ; 

 but he was utterly incapable, it seems, of feeling either 

 pleasure or gratitude at his release from captivity ; and 

 when Mr. Galwey was taken ill, he not only abandoned 

 him, but carried off the little property he had with him, 

 no part of which was ever recovered. 



After this gloomy recital of the mortality which befel 

 the officers and naturalists of the expedition, it will be the 

 less necessary to bespeak the indulgence of the public in 

 passing judgment on the present volume. The Journals of 

 Captain Tuckey and Professor Smith, with the collections 

 which have reached England, afford ample testimony how 

 much more might have been expected in less unfortunate 

 circimistances. These Journals will not be deemed the less 

 valuable for being the mere records of facts and impres- 

 sions, written down without regard to arrangement, the 

 moment they occurred and were made. The few General 

 Observations collected from these Journals, and from de- 

 tached notes of Lieutenant Hawkey, Mr. Fitzmaurice and 

 Mr. Mc Kerrow, have been thrown together in order to 



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