LAST MISSION TO AFRICA. 79 
canoe ; but as one of the soldiers in the other canoe had 
gone out to purchase something, I made the canoe in which 
I was shove off, telling the men to come off the moment 
the man returned. I found it difficult to sit in the canoe 
so as to balance it, though it contained only three people 
besides the rower. We had just landed on the East bank, 
when we observed the canoe, in which were the three sol- 
diers, pushing otf from the opposite bank. It shortly after 
overset, and though the natives from the shore swam in 
to their assistance, yet J. Cartwright was unfortunately 
drowned. The natives dived and recovered two of the 
muskets, and Cartwright's body ; they put the body in the 
canoe and brought it over. I used the means recommended 
by the Humane Society, but in vain. We buried him in 
the evening on the bank of the river. 
The Ba fing is here a large river quite navigable ; it is 
swelled at this time about two feet, and flows at the rate 
of three knots per hour. The people here are all thieves: 
they attempted to steal several of our loads, and we de- 
tected one carrying away the bundle in which was a!! 
our medicines. We could not sleep with the noise of 
the hippopotami, which came close to the bank < J 
kept snorting and blowing all night. The night b -ng 
clear, observed the emersion of Jupiter's second sateliile ; 
it emerged 
