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deplore his loss as the greatest I could have sustained, both as 
regards my private feelings and the public service. 
Wednesday, 28th. — At eleven this morning I interred the re- 
mains of Captain Pearce, the whole of the principal people of the 
town attending, and all the servants. The grave was staked round 
by the inhabitants and a shed built over it : at the head of the 
grave, an inscription was carved on a board by Richard, 1 being 
unable to assist or even to sit up. 
Saturday, 31st. — As I had heard nothing from Mr. Iloutson as 
to the fate of Dr. Morrison, I determined to wait here until I 
should get a little stronger. In the evening, however, Mr. Iloutson 
arrived, who informed me that Dr. Morrison had died at Jannah on 
the same day as Captain Pearce. 
With the assistance (says Mr. Iloutson) of old Accra, and the 
caboceer’s messenger, I had the body washed and dressed, and at 
8 A.M. on the morning of the 28th buried him at the south-west 
end of the house we lived in ; the king’s messenger and a number 
of people attending. I read the church of England service over 
his remains, and paid all the respect that circumstances permitted. 
I sent to Badagry for a head board with an inscription stating his 
name and the date and place of his death. 
Tuesday, January 3d, 1826.. — Left the town of Engwa in a 
hammock, and reached the town of Afoora, where we were well 
lodged, and had a present of yams, fowls, a goat, & c. The town is 
surrounded by a stockade ; the state of the atmosphere much changed 
for the better. 
Wednesday, 4 th. — Clear and cool, all of us much better. At 7.50. 
left Afoora. The country clear, and rising into hill and dale : on the 
rising grounds large blocks of gray granite showed their heads 
above the earth ; the plains were scattered with the female cocoa- 
nut, and covered with long high grass, which in many places had 
recently been burnt down. The view on leaving Afoora was beautiful 
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