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the health of the crews. The vessels arrived there on the 27th, 
and on the 1st of October they quitted that place, th« Congo 
having lost in all 17 men by death, and having then 32 on the 
sick list. Captain Tuckey and Lieutenant Hawker, of the 
Congo, both fell victims to the fatal disease. The command 
of the Congo now devolved on the master, and it was resolved 
to proceed to Rio Janeiro. Gunther, the master of the Do- 
rothy, at this time, had his men nearly all sick, but had only 
lost one, (the carpenter,) and he was drowned by accident. 
Sixteen of the Congo's men were in a convalescent state. 
Such was their situation when the ships reached St Salvador, 
We lament to learn, that when the Dorothy was at Cabenda, 
there were ten Portuguese ships in the port waiting for slaves, 
and two from Spain. Professor Smith had died on board the 
Congo. 
The following notice, probably demi-official, was published 
after the detailed accounts of the expedition had reached the 
Admiralty : 
Melancholy as the result has been, from the great mortality 
of the officers and men, owing to excessive fatigue, rather than 
to the effects of climate, the Journals of Captain Tuckey and 
the gentlemen of the scientific departments, are, we under- 
stand, highly interesting and satisfactory, as far as they go ; 
and, we believe, they extend considerably beyond the first ra- 
pids or cataract. It would seem, indeed, from the extract of 
a letter from the surgeon of the Congo > inserted below, that 
the mortality was entirely owing to the land journey beyond 
these rapids, and that Captain Tuckey died of extreme ex- 
haustion, after leaving the river, and not from fever. The cli- 
mate, we understand, was remarkably fine; scarcely a shower 
of rain, or any humidity in the atmosphere, and the sun sel- 
dom shining out but for a few hours in the middle of the day ; 
Fahrenheit's thermometer seldom exceeding 76 degrees by day. 
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