DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH. ^Sf 
was in despair, on learning that he was giving him- 
self no concern about the affair, and, instead of 
exerting himself to hire canoes, was even rejecting 
those that offered. He wrote, therefore, an urgent 
and somewhat indignant letter, which, he hoped, 
" would rouse him from his lethargy, and give him 
** more generous notions of the expedition. 55 He 
was much surprised when, three days after, the 
Company's pinnace brought down the dead body 
of Mr Willy. The climate appears to have brought 
upon him a mental disorder, which terminated in 
death. Nearly a month, however, had thus been 
lost, and several of his best officers had fallen 
victims to the climate. The new governor, Mr 
Orfeur, exerted himself very actively to forward 
the objects of the expedition. It was the 11th of 
December, however, before five canoes were hired, 
and a meeting of council, held on that day, fixed 
the departure of the expedition for the 26th. Stibbs 
now found the general opinion of those best ac- 
quainted with the country to be, that he ought to 
have set out at least a month sooner. Although 
the greatest care had been taken to conceal the ob- 
ject in view, yet he found, as usual in such cases, 
that it was universally known, and he himself 
pointed at as the person who had gone to bring 
down the gold. He had with him fifteen Euro- 
peans, thirty Africans, besides several w r omen and 
boys. There were besides a linguister, or inter- 
