206 DEATH OF THE MATE. 



here that they were upset in their canoe. We 

 anchored in two fathoms. The mate still getting 

 worse ; the others, a little better. 



Before daylight the next morning, I sent the 

 Kroomen ashore to cut wood ; and at 10. 30, we 

 got under weigh. An immense concourse of 

 natives assembled on the banks, and by signs in- 

 vited us to land. I ran the vessel close along the 

 bank, where nearly two thousand persons were 

 congregated, silently watching our progress. 



Abboka left us early this morning in order 

 to tell the natives to prepare wood for us. He 

 was very anxious to know what goods I had on 

 board ; and as I would not satisfy his curiosity, 

 he appeared dissatisfied at my reserve. He was 

 now gone to his own country, named by the 

 natives Amar, and by Lander, Adamuggoo. 



At 3. 40 p. M. John Huntington, mate, depart- 

 ed this life. He was in his twenty-seventh year, 

 and with the exception of the carpenter, he was 

 the last Englishman I had left in the Alburkah. 

 I examined his remains, and found the liver very 

 soft, considerably enlarged, and in some parts 

 much decayed. I was told that during my ab- 

 sence up the river, he attempted to run the 

 steward through the body for refusing to allow 



