Sketches of the Medical Topography And Native Diseases of the Gulf of Guinea We
Sketches of the Medical Topography And Native Diseases of the Gulf of Guinea We
William F Daniell
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N. , Dr. Vogel, the celebrated botanist, and others, whose graves with those of the inhabitants are overspread by a luxuriant carpet of grass and weeds. R. Lander was attacked by the people of Hyammah, in conjunction with the crews of some Bonny canoes, when proceeding on a trading mis- sion up the Quorra in an open boat. A wound received in the skirmish by a musket shot of cop- per, that penetrated the glutei muscles, soon occasioned gangrene, which, from inattention and the want of medical ai...d, rapidly proved fatal, and he expired in Clarence shortly after his arrival, in the prime of life. Apart from the perils and difficulties that beset his path in the exploration of the maritime regions of equinoctial Africa, the inexperienced European has to contend against far more deadly enemies in the deleterious nature of those influences pecu- L 2 148 THE ISLAND OF FERNANDO PO. liar to the clime and country which he visits ; and I may remark, in this place, that an estimate may be formed of the mortality from the fact, that out of near forty travellers in Africa, no less than two- thirds have fallen a sacrifice either by disease or the treacherous hostility of the natives.
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