no 
AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
that to put an encl to them Campbell was obliged to 
burn his merchandise, break his guns, and sink his 
powder. 
Against so much fatigue and mortification, added to 
the complete failure of his expedition, Major Campbell 
failed to bear up, and he died, with several of his officers, 
in the very place where Major Peddie had closed his 
CROSSING TIIE DESERT. 
career. The few survivors of the party reached Sierra 
Leone after an arduous march. 
A little later, Ritchie and Captain George Francis 
Lyon, availing themselves of the prestige which the 
siege of Algiers had brought to the British flag, and of 
the cordial relations which the English consul at Tripoli 
had succeeded in establishing with the principal Moorish 
authorities, determined to follow Hornemann’s route, and 
penetrate to the very heart of Africa. 
On the 25th of March, 1819, the travellers left 
