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ME. BEECEOPT. 
were alien to oiir former habits, as well as for those 
with which we were familiar. No survivor in the 
‘ Albert’ can but feel a devout thankfulness, that Dr. 
Stanger was enabled to continue at his unusual and 
onerous duties in the engine-room ; and that I was 
permitted health to remain on deck, and with the 
admirable chart of the Niger by Captain W. Allen, 
and with the assistance of Brown the negro clerk, to 
conduct the vessel in safety, until both of us were 
relieved by falling in with assistance when we least 
expected it. 
To Captain Beecroft, I wish I could pay a tribute 
worthy of his prompt and noble conduct. Captain 
William Allen, anxious about the fate of the ‘Albert,’ 
and from his previous fearful experience of the Niger, 
dreading the worst, was desirous that Beecroft, then at 
Fernando Po in the ‘ Ethiope,’ shoiild ascend the 
Niger, and render what assistance we might stand in 
need of. The wish was no sooner made known, than 
he at once weighed for the river. The timely aid he 
rendered us, can be fully appreciated only by those 
who were in the position to feel the full force of its 
value.” 
[It may be necessary to inform the reader of the 
foregoing extracts from my Journal, that although 
they were written at a time more fertile in events, and 
when objects of daily interest were perhaps more 
numerous than during any other period of the Expedi- 
tion, it was not possible for me, in the peculiar and 
