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three vessels steamed on towards Fernando Po. 
George Cole, a marine, who had been attacked with 
fever at Egga, died in the forenoon. Captain Trotter 
was much better ; but Commander Allen, Lieutenant 
Stenhouse, Mr. Webb, and Mr. Willie, were very low. 
Weather very fine, and the difference of atmospherical 
temperature since leaving the river, was of most sen- 
sible benefit to all, more especially to the sick. For 
the last few days I have had a burning sensation in 
the limbs, with headache and occasional giddiness. I 
had the same feelings at the Confluence ; but intense 
mental occupation gave me no time to heed them. 
Sunday, October 17th . — Was on deck during the 
greater part of the night with Captain Beecroft, where 
I slept soundly upon a chair. In the forenoon, the 
dark outline of the mountain of Fernando Po was 
seen through the haze which hung over the land. At 
twelve, we were close in with the shore ; at three p.m., 
opened the anchorage of Clarence Cove, where we 
came-to a little past four. 
Thus terminated the perilous descent of the Niger, 
which from the extraordinary combination of circum- 
stances attending it, can never be forgotten by those 
who lived to see it concluded. 
Every hour, from the time we left Egga, until our 
arrival at Fernando Po, seemed to give birth to 
events calculated to excite the warmest sympathies of 
our nature, and to occupy our minds with the most 
intense anxiety, in calling upon us for resources that 
