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tlieir first acts was to visit the sick officers and men at 
the different houses. They walked quietly into the 
several apartments, kneeling down near those they were 
acquainted with, gently pressing the sufferer’s hand, and 
whispering, in their broken English, a word of comfort, 
or the sympathy so plainly written on the counte- 
nance. It was, indeed, a most interesting sight to 
witness such a display of considerate feeling on the 
part of these untutored children of nature, whose 
almost naked, stalwart, black figures were in strong 
contrast to the gentleness of manner, and commisera- 
tion evinced on that occasion. In all the difficulties 
of the Expedition how nobly these fine fellows behaved ; 
even amid the absence of discipline unavoidable by the 
sickness of all their superiors, not one case of insubor- 
dination or neglect of duty occurred among them ; and 
truly their conduct showed how sincere were their ex- 
pressions, “Kru-boylike white man too much,” “where 
white man go, Kru-boy must go, only he too much 
sorry, see good white friend die.” 
— Lieutenant David Hope Stenhouse breathed 
his last early this morning, after an illness of upwards 
of a mouth, throughout which he manifested the same 
excellent disposition that had distinguished him in 
health, and caused him to be appreciated among all his 
naval friends. In his death, he did but exchange 
bright earthly prospects, for the imperishable honours 
of another v'orld. Ills remains were interred near 
those of Commander Bird Allen: the fever in both 
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