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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
that he filled some very important situations, 
his Excellency, with that alacrity he had all 
along shewn to comply with whatever was cal- 
culated to forward the views of the expedition, 
most willingly agreed to his proceeding, should 
his services be required. After Major Peddie's 
death, they were considered very acceptable, 
and he was immediately added to our number. 
He did not, however, long survive our lamented 
commander ; he was attacked with fever, for 
the first time since his arrival on the coast, on 
the 13th of January, and died on the 21st, 
deeply regretted by us all. 
The convalescents, and in which condition 
were nearly all the Europeans, being in a very 
debilitated state, were moved forward, under 
the care of Mr. Nelson, to the borders of the 
Foota country, on the Tingalinta river, whence 
they might be easily sent back were they not 
sufficiently recovered by the time the whole 
might have moved forward. 
We left Robugga in the afternoon of the 1st 
of February, and after a most fatiguing march 
of four hours reached Harrimakona, a small 
slave village belonging to a Mandingo chief, 
named Kirra Mahomadoo, who lives near Ka- 
kundy. 
On the morning of the £d, Lieutenant Sto- 
koe was added to the sick list, and being unable 
