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a Camera Lucida, and they may therefore be relied on as 
correct. For the satisfaction of such as might wish to know 
more of them than a figure could convey, I drew up concise 
descriptions, and attached to each a specific name, to which 
I added the local appellation, as far as I could ascertain it." 
But we must accompany our Naturalist to Algoa Bay, re- 
specting which place, and its people and productions, we 
shall make copious extracts from his Journal. 
ALGOA BAY. 
* *Onthel4th April, 1807, I embarked in theJohn, transport, 
for Algoa Bay. A detachment, consisting of one hundred 
men of the 72d and 93d regiments, under the command of 
Captain Lawrence, was ordered to relieve an equal force of 
the 83d regiment, stationed at that outpost. A desire to 
Visit a spot so remote and so little known, induced me to 
become a volunteer on this occasion: and as none of those 
Who possessed a prior claim had a taste for travelling, no 
jection was made. On weighing anchor, the morning of 
the 15th, we had an opportunity of witnessing the partial 
action of the south-east wind, which frequently occurs in 
Table Bay. While the John lay like a log on the calm 
unruffled surface of the water, another ship, which had stood 
out at a short distance from us, having caught the gale, shot 
across our bow at the rate of eight knots an hour. It soon, 
" a reached us also, and carried us speedily out of the 
y ; . 
“ Our progress to the eastward was retarded by baffling 
winds until the 24th, when a small breeze from the north- 
ĉast sprung up, and, passing rapidly into a furious gale, 
obliged us to lie to for the space of twenty-four hours. » 
* away at length in repeated showers of rain. — a 
Variety of delays, occasioned chiefly by our ignorance of the 
Coast, we arrived at our destination on the 2d May, and 
‘ ed the detachment on the 3d. -— 
.'. Algoa Bay lies in the same parallel of 
Bay, the line of coast running from the i 
“nation due east, It is an immense excavation 
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latitude as Table 
latter with little 
of the 
