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the transport, he refused physic and food, because 
his stomach rejected bark, and, preferring cold 
water, he became delirious ; apparently, he died of 
disappointment, popularly called a “broken heart.” 
Messrs. Tudor and Cranchalso fell victims to bilious 
remittents, complicated, in the case of the latter, 
by the “gloomy view taken of Christianity by that 
sect denominated Methodists.” Mr. Galway, on 
September 28th, visited Sangala, the highest rapid 
(“Narrative,” p. 328). In the Introduction, p. 80, 
we are wrongly told that he went to Banza Ninga, 
whence, being taken ill on August 24th, he was 
sent down stream. He, like his commander, had 
to sleep in the open, almost without food, and he 
also succumbed to fever, fatigue, and exhaustion. 
The cause of this prodigious mortality appears 
in the records of the expedition. Officers and 
men were all raw, unseasoned, and unacclimatized. 
Captain Tuckey, an able navigator, the author of 
“ Maritime Geography and Statistics,” had served 
in the tropics; his biographer, however, writes 
that a long imprisonment in France and “ resi¬ 
dence in India had broken down his constitution, 
and at the age of thirty (ob. set. thirty-nine) his 
hair was grey and his head nearly bald.” The 
men perished, exactly like the missionaries of 
old, by hard work, insufficient and innutritious 
food, physical exhaustion, and by the doctor. At 
first “ immediate bleeding and gentle cathartics ” 
