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GHAP. IX. 



TRANSACTIONS AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE ; WITH AN 

 ACCOUNT OF SOME DISCOVERIES MADE BY THE FRENCH; 

 AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP AT ST. HELENA. 



I now resume my own Journal, which Captain Fur- 

 neaux's interesting Narrative in the preceding chap- 

 ter, had obliged me to suspend. 



The day after my arrival at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 I went on shore and waited on the governor, Baron 

 Plettenberg, and other principal officers, who received 

 and treated us with the greatest politeness, contri- 

 buting all in their power to make it agreeable. And, 

 as there are few people more obliging to strangers 

 than the Dutch in general at this place, and refresh- 

 ments of all kinds are no where to be got in such 

 abundance, we enjoyed some real repose, after the 

 fatigues of a long voyage. 



The good treatment which strangers meet with at 

 the Cape of Good Hope, and the necessity of breath- 

 ing a little fresh air, has introduced a custom not 

 common any where else (at least I have no where 

 seen it so strictly observed), which is, for all the 

 officers who can be spared out of the ships to reside 

 on shore. We followed this custom. Myself the 

 two Mr. Forsters, and Mr. Sparrman, took up our 

 abode with Mr. Brandt, a gentleman well known to 

 to the English by his obliging readiness to serve 

 them. My first care after my arrival, was to procure 

 fresh-baked bread, fresh meat, greens, and wine, for 

 those who remained on board ; and, being provided 

 every day during our stay with these articles, they 

 were soon restored to their usual strength. We had 

 only three men on board whom it was thought ne- 

 cessary to send on shore for the recovery of their 



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