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of the South African Museum. 



from their shape or style of cutting, are parts of four different 

 inscriptions. All four, however, are very obscure. 



Of the first inscription on the upper side of the stone, the figures 

 161 alone are distinct, and these seem to be completed by the figure 

 8, which would thus give the year as 1618. 



FIG. 10. 

 40 cm. x 38 cm. 



RO T ADAMS COM DE - OF 

 THE BUL AEIVED 29 OP 



NOVEM K & DEP ED THE 12 OF DEC R 1619 



FOR BANTAM 10 s COCKRAM. CAPE MARCH. 



LETTERS UNDER. 



Below this the second inscription, which is very distinct in parts, 

 reads as above. 



Below this are two lines graved in a different style and undecipher- 

 able, and lastly, on the lower end of the block, and executed again 

 by another hand, a very rough graving 



WILL VOR LETTERS 1629. 



The ship William had returned to England in December, 1628 ; 

 but she might have touched again here in 1629. 



