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370 MISSION TO ASHANTEE. 
CHAPTER XI. 
Materia Medica and Diseases, 
Th e report of the Materia Medica and Botany of Ashantee, was 
the only one which I was not required to furnish. It was afforded 
by Mr. Henry Tedhe, assistant surgeon, whose subsequent death 
has mingled a regret with the recollection of the Embassy, which 
the recall of my own sufferings^ and the family affliction it entailed 
on me, could never have exacted. The intelligence reached me in 
England, to correct the pride of success by associating misfortune 
with it ; for the recollection of Mr. Tedlie's social virtues, of his 
enterprise and ability, makes it a severe one to myself, and to the 
world. Mr. Tedlie suffered severely from intermitting dysentery 
during the Mission, but I had hoped it would have been eradicated 
after his return. He had previously attended the expedition to 
Candy, and expired at Cape Coast Castle in the 27th year of his 
age. Throughout the Mission he indulged the feelings of the 
natives, in his professional capacity, with a patience few could 
have exerted; whether labouring under sickness himself, or dis- 
turbed in the moments of a scanty rest ; he awed and conciliated 
the people by the importance of his cures, and thus contributed to 
the success of the enterprise. 
" During the earlier part of our residence at Coomassie, the 
season was tolerably favourable to the gathering of plants, but we 
were then allowed to go out but seldom, and never beyond the town. 
