Notes on the Congo River . 175 
days used to recall the miseries of his march to 
Margate, and declare that the horrid dress gave 
him more pain than anything he afterwards en¬ 
dured in a life-time of marching. None seemed 
capable of calculating what amount of fatigue and 
privation the European system is able to support 
in the tropics. And thus they perished, sometimes 
of violent bilious remittents, more often of utter 
weariness and starvation. Peace to their manes! 
—they did their best, and “ angels can no more.” 
They played for high stakes, existence against 
fame— 
“ But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, 
Comes the blind Fury with th* abhorred shears, 
And slits the thin-spun life.” 
“ The Narrative of an Expedition to Explore 
the River Zaire” (London, John Murray, 1818), 
published by permission of the Lords Commis¬ 
sioners of the Admiralty, was necessarily a posthu¬ 
mous work. The Introduction of eighty-two pages 
and the General Observations (fifty-three pages) 
are by anonymous hands ; follow Captain Tuc- 
key’s Narrative, Professor Smith s Journal, and an 
Appendix with seven items; 1, vocabularies of 
the Malemba and Embomma (Fiote or Congo) 
languages; 2, 3, and 4, Zoology; 5, Botany; 
6, Geology; and 7, Hydrography. The most 
valuable is No. 5, an admirable paper entitled 
“ Observations, Systematical and Geographical, on 
