DEATH OF MR. WATERS. 
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a most severe one, attended with almost constant 
irritability of stomach; but he would never be per- 
suaded to continue the requisite means, or to abstain 
from drinking largely of tea, lemonade, &c., which 
increased it. In his death the expedition lost an 
active medical officer, and the African a most de- 
voted friend. His remains were interred at Cape 
Nun, not far from where Back the instrument-maker 
had been buried on the first arrival of the ‘Albert.’ 
Early on the 22nd, the ‘ Soudan’ was under steam 
and crossed the bar, where she met the ‘ Dolphin,’ on 
board of which vessel thirty-five of the sick were sent, 
retaining seven who were recovering, and two, Mr. 
Waters and Lewis Wolfe, who being in a dying state, 
were quite unfit to be removed. Mr. Stirling, assistant- 
surgeon, being unwell, it was considered advisable to 
send him also. 
Under the circumstances, without officers, engineers, 
or fuel, it would have been impossible for the ‘ Soudan’ 
to proceed to Ascension, and most fortunate was the 
‘Dolphin’s’ proximity; thus enabling the sick to be 
forwarded at once by her. The kindness and atten- 
tion received by them on the passage will always be a 
subject of grateful remembrance. 
In the afternoon the ‘ Soudan’ made the best of her 
Way to Fernando Po. Poor AVaters lingered until 
about ten o’clock in the evening, when he expired. 
His case commenced with bad symptoms on the 
