APPENDIX. 511 
" Captain Tuckey had been afflicted many years with chro- 
nic hepatitis, and on returning from travelling jive weeks on 
shore, he was so excessively reduced, that all attempts to re- 
store the energy of his system proved ineffectual. 
" Mr Tudor was in the last stage of fever before I saw him, 
as were Messrs Cranch and Galvvay. 
" Professor Smith died in two days after he came under my 
care, during which time he refused every thing, whether as 
nutriment or medicine. 
" Lieutenant Hawkey was taken ill after leaving the river, 
and died on the fourth day : his case was rather singular,— 
the symptoms were, irritability of stomach, with extreme lan- 
guor and debility, but he had neither pain nor fever. 
" Mr Eyre had a violent fever, and on the third day breath- 
ed his last : before death, a yellow suffusion had taken place, 
with vomiting of matter resembling coffee grounds." 
The following letter, written by Captain Tuckey, appeared 
in the Asiatic Journal for January 1817 : 
" Banga Cooloo Yollella, August 20, 1816. 
*' My Dear Sir, — I have at length reached the obstruction 
that prevents the farther progress of the boats ; the river being 
rilled with rocks for upwards of fifteen miles, and the current 
running over them with a great velocity, precludes all idea of 
getting a course up it. The country is besides so mountain- 
ous, that it is equally impracticable to convey a boat by land. 
" I am therefore about to proceed with thirty men as far as 
I can by land. I can gain no information from the natives of 
the course or nature of the river higher up, so that I go on 
feeling my way in the dark. Provisions are so scarce among 
the natives, that I carry every thing with me, which is the 
greatest bar to my progress. Our passage out was terribly 
long, owing both to the lightness of the winds, the current, 
and the bad sailing of the vessels. Your ladies would laugh 
