FATAL CASE OF FEVER. 
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the Nufi people, Patteh, and Lukosa by those of Kakanda. 
We found the temperature of the Niger at this place 
85^ ; much lower down, where it is mixed with the water 
of the Chadda, it was but 83°, showing that the 
latter is cooler, owing probably to having its rise in 
higher mountains than the Niger. 
We had the first proof to-day, in the ‘ Wilberforce* 
ol the fatal effect of the fever, which has unhappily 
commenced its ravages, in the death of James Kneebone, 
a young seaman who was taken ill on the 4th ; other 
cases were assuming an unfavourable appearance. Lieu- 
tenant Ellis and Mr. Marshall, of the ‘ Soudan,’ were 
dangerously ill. Commander W. Allen was also unwell 
and fatigued in the evening. 
3 A.M, Ther. 78° Wet bulb Mason’s Hygr. 74° 
9 A.M. 
79“ 
75" 
3 P.M. 
00 
o 
77" 
9 P.M. 
8i“,5 „ 
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77" 
Sunday^ I'ith 8ept , — We were truly glad of a day 
of rest; our divine service had, however, some very 
melancholy attendant circumstances, the corpse of the 
poor fellow who died yesterday was lying close to us, 
and during the whole of the service we had the noise 
of the workmen preparing the coffin, but this was 
unavoidable, as decomposition was rapidly going on. 
We buried him in the evening, near the spot where 
Commander W, Allen, on the former visit to this place, 
had laid some of his companions. 
