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AN ENGINEER DROWNED. 
length, after being kept in a state of torturing anxiety 
for twenty minutes, we again began to breathe freely, 
when she came alongside with our shipmate, whom we 
had all but giyen up for lost. 
The Africans, guided by Wilmett’s cries, had fol- 
lowed him close, but did not come up with him until 
they were a mile below the ship. They contrived to 
hold him on until the boat dropped down and picked 
them up'^A 
Weighed anchor at six a.m., and dropped down with 
the stream a few miles, while the steam was being got 
up. The Victoria Range was soon in sight; and as 
all knew that it was not far from the confluence, there 
was general joy throughout the ship. 
A gloom, however, was thrown over the ship this 
forenoon a little past eleven. Mr. Lodge, the second 
engineer, who had for a week been labouring under 
fever, had manifested on the evening before some 
symptoms of delirium, and he was, as a matter of 
precaution, restrained in his cot. In the morning he 
was quite quiet and sensible, but complained of being 
bound. In the forenoon he asked me for a drink, and 
looked perfectly collected. In ten minutes afterwards 
he got out of his cot unperceived (which was on the 
poop under an awning and an inverted basket boat) 
and jumped overboard. Strange to say, although 
* Both most deservedly received the diploma and honorary silver 
medallion from the Royal Humane Society of London. 
