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Stay from 2nd to 26th October, 1857- 



Contrasts of sceneiy and seasons at Cape Colony. 

 Ramble tlurough Simon's Town. — Malay Population. 

 — The Toad-fish, or Sea-devU. — Rondebosch and its 

 delightful scenery. — Cape Town. — Influence of the 

 English element. — Scientific and other Institutions. 

 Botanical Gardens. — Useful plants. — Foreign Emi- 

 gration. — A Caffre prophet and the consequences of 

 his i)rophecies. — Cafire prisoners in the Armstrong 

 Battery. — Five young Caffres take service as sailors 

 on board the Novara. — Trip into the interior. — SteUenbosch. — Paarl. — Worcester. 

 — Brandvalley. — The Mission of Moravian Brethren at Genaadendal. — JSIastica- 

 tories and intoxicating substances used by the Hottentots. — Caledon.^ — Somerset 

 West.— Zandvliet.— Tomb of a Malay Prophet.— Horse Sickness.— Tsetse-fly.— 

 Vineyards of Constantia. — Fete champetre in honour of tlie Novara. — Excm-sion 

 to the actual Cape of Good Hope. — Departm-e. — A life saved.— Experiments 

 with Brook's deep-sea sounding apparatus. — Arrival at the Island of St. Paul in 

 the South Indian Ocean. 



There can scarcely be a landscape more gloomy and desolate 

 than the sterile, rocky mountains, and white sandy plains, 



