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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
Chap. LII. 
protected from the beasts of prey. Thus died my 
sole friend and companion, in the thirtieth year of 
his age, and in the prime of his youth. It was not 
reserved for him to finish his travels, and to return 
home in safety ; but he met a most honourable death, 
as a martyr to science ; and it is a remarkable fact that 
he found himself a grave on the very borders of that 
lake by the navigation of which he has rendered his 
name celebrated for ever. It was certainly a presenti- 
ment of his approaching death which actuated him in 
his ardent desire to be removed to this place, where 
he died hard by the boat in which he had made his 
voyage. Many of the inhabitants of the place, who 
had known him well during his repeated visits to the 
village, bitterly lamented his death ; and no doubt the 
"tabib," as he was called, will be long remembered 
by them. 
Dejected, and full of sad reflections on my lonely 
situation, I returned into the town in the evening; 
but our dwelling, which during my stay in Bagirmi 
my companion had greatly improved, and embellished 
by white- washing it with a kind of gypsum, of which 
he found a layer in our courtyard, now appeared to 
me desolate and melancholy in the extreme. While, 
therefore, originally it had been my plan to make 
another trial along the eastern shores of the Ts&d, 
any longer stay in this place had now become so into- 
lerable to me, that I determined to set out as soon as 
possible on my journey towards the Niger — to new 
countries and new people. 
