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inscription recording his passage in Table Bay is therefore anterior 

 to any of those figuring on the stone. 



The date 1G35 may or may not be that of the record of the Jonas ; 

 the letters are very indistinct or obliterated, but the date of departure, 

 26th, does not tally with that of the fleet of 1624, which sailed on the 



FIG. 15. 

 125 cm. x 72 cm. 



ROYAL JAMES HENRY WHEATLEY PURS. 

 RICH LANGFORD EDWARD SMITH JULY 28 1624. 



29th, as shown by the quotations from Kerridge and Monck ; and if 

 the inscription is that of the Jonas, it is eleven years older. 

 Another inscription appears to be : 



SWAN . . FROM . . BANT . . CAP . . SWAN Y . . CO . . OF ENGLAND 



