EETURN — DEATHS, 
them ; the natives, taking advantage of their re- 
duced condition, deserted and plundered them 5 
and Captain Tuckey is forced on one occasion 
to exclaim, " Terrible march, worse to us than 
the retreat from Moscow !" A remarkable and 
interesting feature occurred in the rise of the 
river, without any rains sufficient to produce it. 
Creeks over which they had formerly walked were 
now filled with water ; while rocks, across which 
they had been obliged to drag their canoes, could 
now be sailed over. The total rise was found to 
be eleven feet. After making their way over the 
mountainous tract, and reaching the navigable 
part of the river, boats were refused ; but Cap- 
tain Tuckey considered himself here justified by 
the necessity of the case, in seizing them by force. 
On the l6th he arrived at the Congo, where the 
whole party were now united, and were no longer 
liable to exposure, fatigue, and mental agitation ; 
but their doom was already sealed. Cranch, and 
Tudor, and Galwey, were already no more. The 
former, who was somewhat liable to depression of 
spirits, had left his native country with a presenti- 
ment, which gained always new strength, that he 
would never return to it. This feeling, though it 
never relaxed his exertions, might probably render 
him more liable to the attacks of disease. He ^as 
seized with the fever on the S3d August ; it made 
rapid progress, and soon exhibited fatal symptoms. 
