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died, his voice wholly failed.  He was a while restless and uneasy, till, turning his head on his pillow, he found an easier posture, and lay perfectly quiet.
30.  About seven in the evening of the day on which he was brought on shore, he expired without a groan.  When his mother and other relatives found his breath was gone, their shrieks and agonizing cries were distressing beyond measure. Instantly, in a kind of frantic madness, they snatched up his body, hurried it into a canoe, and went off with it to Robanna.  Some of the gentlemen of the factory immediately followed in boats, with a coffin.
31. When the corpse was laid decently into it, Mr. Horne, the clergyman, read the funeral service over it, amid a number of people, and finished with an extempore prayer.  The ceremony was conducted with so much solemnity, and performed in so affecting a manner, that the impression was communicated throughout the whole crowd. They drew closer and closer, as Mr. Horne continued to speak ; and though they understood not a syllable of what he said, they listened to him with great attention, and bore witness, with every mark of sorrow, to the powers of sympathy.
32. After the ceremony was over, the gentlemen of the factory retired to their boats, leaving the corpse, as his friend desired, to be buried according to the custom of the country.  We mix our grief

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with theirs ; and shut up, in the inscrutable counsels of God, all inquiries into the reasons why so invaluable a life was permitted to be cut off, just at the time of its greatest probable utility.
33.  In Naimbanna's pocket-book were found, after his death, two little notes, which show the great sensibility of his mind in religious matters. They relate to a circumstance already noticed,--the disgust which he took at the behaviour of the ship's company.  The first appears to have been written soon after he embarked.  "I shall take care of this company which I now have fallen into ; for they swear good deal, and talk all manner of wickedness, and filthy ; all these things. Can I be able to resist this temptation? No, I cannot, but the Lord will deliver me."
34.  The other memorandum was probably written after he complained to the captain. "June 28th, 1793.--I have this day declared, that if Sierra Leone's vessels should be like to Naimbanna, or have a company like her, I will never think of coming to England again, though I have friends there as dear to me as the last words my father spoke, when he gave up the ghost."
35. The history of Naimbanna is a beautiful illustration of our blessed Saviour's injunction to "receive the gospel as little children :" and it should convince us, that if we are desirous to receive it in this manner, we should endeavor carefully to separate it from the evil customs and