Travels Of Richard And John Lander Into The Interior Of Africa For The Discovery Of The Course And Termination Of The Niger By Robert Huish
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The Susan Was In The Calebar, Waiting
For A Cargo, When Her Crew Were Attacked With Fever, Which Quickly
Carried Off Her Captain, Mates, And Left Only One Person Alive.
The
vessel thus reduced, was without her crew to bring her out of the
river, much less to complete
Her cargo, and she might have remained
there till the last had died, but for the watchful attention of Mr.
Becroft, who brought her to Clarence with a party of men, and after
putting a new mast into her, and doing all in his power to set the
vessel in order, supplied her with provisions and fresh people, and
sent her to sea. The Landers were offered a passage in her to
England, but declined accepting it in consequence of the condition in
which she had been. She was afterwards obliged to stop at Cape Coast,
in consequence of the fever having broken out afresh on board of her.
The most melancholy account of the effects of the climate here, which
came within the knowledge of the Landers, was in the family of
Lieutenant Stockwell, the officer commanding the party of marines,
whose name has been already mentioned. This gentleman had brought his
wife and a large family with him from the island of Ascension, who
were residing with his brother officer in a building called the
Waterfall House, which had been erected by Captain Owen. Mr.
Stockwell successively lost five of his children, and five servants,
the latter of whom successively died, as they came into his service.
His brother officer also died, making eleven in number, and Mr.
Stockwell and his wife narrowly escaped with their lives.
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