...men died. In his persistency he cried, "If all my best friends and companions die, I would persevere. If I could not succeed in the object of my journey I would at last die on the Niger." And this he did. He pushed on till he was drowned at Boussa, where the Niger falls between precipitous...

...Notwithstanding, he wrote to Lord Cam den, on the 19th November, 1805, with unshaken fortitude : " Though all the Europeans who are with " me should die, and though I myself were half dead, I would still "persevere." While to his wife he wrote more hopefully, that "...