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: Professor Chetien Smith, a Norwegian botanist and geologist (died); Mr. Cranch, collector of objects of natural history (died); Mr. Tudor, comparative anatomist (died); Mr. Galway, Irishman and volunteer naturalist (died); and
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Lockhart, a gardener (of His Majesty's Gardens, Kew). There were two Congo negroes, Benjamin Benjamins and Somme Simmons; the latter, engaged as a cook's mate, proved to be a
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and a
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are not complimentary.
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Cranch, I fear, says Professor Smith,
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And, again,
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Poor Cranch is almost too much the object of jest; Galway is the principal banterer. In the Professor's remarks on the
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Congo useless. Of the fifty-four white men, eighteen, including eleven of the
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Congo crew, died in less than three months. Fourteen out of a party of thirty officers and men, who set out to explore the cataracts viâ the northern bank, lost their lives; and they were followed by four more on board the
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Congo, and one at Bahia. The expedition remained in the river between July 6th and October 18th, little more than three months; yet twenty-one, or nearly one-third, three of the superior officers and all the scientific men, perished. Captain Tuckey died of fatigue and exhaustion (Oct. 4th) rather than of disease; Lieutenant Hawkey, of fatal typhus (which during 1862 followed the yellow fever, in the Bonny and New Calabar Rivers); and Mr. Eyre, palpably of bilious remittent. Professor Smith had been so charmed with the river, that he was with difficulty persuaded to return. Prostrated four days afterwards by sickness on board 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
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Messrs. Tudor and Cranchalso fell victims to bilious remittents, complicated, in the case of the latter, by the
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Mr. Galway, on September 28th, visited Sangala, the highest rapid (
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Narrative,