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departure was deeply regretted, and accompanied with 
the sincere wishes of all parties, for his restoration to 
health, and future welfare. 
Nor was it with any ordinary feelings that the two 
former gentlemen said adieu to their numerous friends, 
who could not readily forget that Stanger, besides his 
professional aid so cheerfully rendered, had also 
generously and unremittingly worked at the engine, on 
which exertions, together with those of Dr. McWilliam, 
probably so many lives depended, while Mr. Shon in 
his unwearing ministerings to the spiritual comforts 
of the sick, had given them cause for grateful remem- 
brance. 
Mr. Merriman, gunner, and W. MacOlaughlin, sail- 
maker, both of whom were in a most emaciated state, 
and getting worse under the influence of the climate, 
had also been removed on board the ‘ Warree,’ to afford 
them the only chance of recovery — change of air*. 
24;;/i.- The peculiar condition of the atmosphere, 
styled at Fernando Po the “Smokes,” commenced 
early this morning, in the form of a dense vapour, 
which floated sluggishly over the sea, enveloping por- 
tions of the land, and quite obscuring the opposite 
coasts; the wind was unusually light, westerly and 
south-westerly, with an average temperature of 84° 
Fahrenheit’s thermometer ; this, which corresponds to 
the health-reviving harmattan of the other parts of the 
* The latter died on the passage. 
