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In a few days he expired, " after offering a de- 
" vout prayer for the welfare of his family, and 
with the name of his wife quivering on his lips.'* 
Mr Tudor had been seized on the 15th August, 
reached the Congo on the 2^d, and died on the 
S9th, with nearly the same symptoms as Cranch. 
The two friends were interred, with military ho- 
nours, by the side of each other, with a natural 
feeling, as if the grave destined for them on this 
distant and foreign shore was, by such an union, 
rendered less strange and lonely. On the 9th 
September Mr Galwey expired. Captain Tuckey 
had purchased, with the view of restoring to liber- 
ty, a negro brought down in fetters from the Man- 
dingo country, and had appointed him to attend 
on Mr Galwey ; but this wretch, destitute of faith 
or gratitude, took the first opportunity to aban- 
don and even to plunder his unfortunate charge. 
Galwey was interred by the side of Cranch and 
Tudor. Captain Tuckey thus, on his sad arrival, 
found the party only the wreck of what it had 
been. But the tide of calamity was not to stop. 
We have already noticed, that Dr Smith was 
taken ill, four days after they began to descend the 
river. As is not unusual with patients who have 
acquired a smattering of medicine, he had formed 
a system of his own, to which he obstinately ad- 
hered, and which consisted unfortunately in the 
rejection of every thing in the shape either of 
