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spare arms I miglit have, I sent two bliuiderbusses, two 
fowling pieces, two pair of pistols, and five unserviceable 
muskets ; requesting in return that Mansong would either 
send a proper canoe, or permit me to purchase one that I 
might proceed on my journey. Isaaco returned on the 
20th with a large canoe ; but half of it was very much 
decayed and patched. I therefore set about joining the 
best half to the half formerly sent ; and with the assist- 
ance of Abraham Bolton (private) took out all the rotten 
pieces ; and repaired all the holes, and sewed places ; and 
with eighteen days hard labour, changed the Bambarra 
canoe into His Majesty's schooner JoUba; the length 
forty feet, breadth six feet ; being flat bottomed, draws 
only one foot water when loaded. 
October 28th. — At a quarter past five o'clock in the 
morning my dear friend Mr. Alexander Anderson died 
after a sickness of four months. I feel much inclined to 
speak of his merits ; but as his worth was known only to 
a few friends, I will rather cherish his memory in silence, 
and imitate his cool and steady conduct, than weary my 
friends with a panegyric in which they cannot be sup- 
posed to join. I shall only observe that no event which 
took place during the journey, ever threw the smallest 
gloom over my mind, till I laid Mr. Anderson in the 
grave. I then felt myself, as if left a second time lonely 
and friendless amidst the wilds of Africa. 
