290 THE DEATH OF MR. GREEN. 



grief. The interpreter states that after firing at 

 birds, which he did for the purpose of obtaining* nou- 

 rishing food for the dying Hottentot, he would keep 

 the gun at his shoulder, as if absorbed in thought, 

 gazing upon vacancy until roused. Three days after 

 Platje's decease, this intrepid and amiable young 

 man also fell a victim, more as it would appear to 

 excessive nervous excitement, than to the ravages 

 of fever. He refused the medicines offered to him 

 by the natives, and died in one of their huts. The 

 interpreter states that he saw him buried : shortly 

 before his death he gave up his papers, with orders 

 that they should be forwarded to the Colony. 



Mr. Cowie was a native of Scotland, and a gen- 

 tleman of great professional skill ; his manners were 

 mild and popular, his disposition amiable and liberal, 

 and he had an unextinguishable love of science. 

 His engagements of every kind were performed 

 with the strictest punctuality. His information was 

 extensive, and he was remarkable for personal neat- 

 ness. At the period of his unfortunate death he 

 was about thirty- two years of age. 



" Mr. Green was born in the county of Wexford, 

 in Ireland, about the year 1800, and emigrated to 

 the Cape of Good Hope in 1821 ; soon after which 

 he entered the government civil service, subsequently 

 relinquishing it for a mercantile career. He was of 

 a strong athletic form, possessing great courage, 

 and extraordinary agility. A singular rencontre 



