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made in the ground immediately in front of the then recently com- 

 pleted offices of the Union Castle Company in Adderley Street. It 

 had, however, been discovered before, but was evidently left in situ 

 until it became again hidden from sight, for we read in the Cape 

 Town Gazette of Friday, August 17, 1827 : " On removing the earth 

 to make some repairs to a drain in the Heeregracht (now Adderley 

 Street) a large stone was uncovered, upon which the following 

 inscription was traced," and a correct transcription is there given. 



Tf LONDON'AWVD^FE'10'OfM 



FROM $VRATBOVN>FCR 

 ENGLAND AN> Of PW -T-E<>a DICTO 

 BLVTH CAPTANF \6LL 



LOOKL 

 FOR LETTERS 



FIG. 1-2. 

 105 cm. x GO cm. 



The upper inscription reads : 



THE LU\DO\ . AKIVED THE . 10 . OF M(ARCH) HEBE . FROM SURAT . 

 BOUND . FOR . ENGLAND AND . DEPAR(TED) THE . 20 DITTO . 1622. 

 RICHARD BLYTH CAPTAIN. HERE UNDER LOOK FOR LETTERS. 



Below this 



1629. JAN. REY R - CLOCK (OR CLOOK) GASP V BERING HEN H. f. 



Stone IX. 



The London a few years later met the Blcssiiuj and the Will in in. 

 at the Cape both inward bound, and a record of this call exists in an 



