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Precautions against Sea-Sickness. 



provision, it was so essential to obtain. 

 We now understood that a vast ex- 

 pense would be incurred in transport- 

 ing our families and property from the 

 place of our landing to the place of lo- 

 cation, and that government, having 

 made no provision for the purpose, the 

 expense would ultimately fall upon 

 ourselves ; and that the £10 deposit 

 (paid in England) which they had 

 agreed to return tis, would in all pro- 

 bability be used for that purpose. We 

 were not long in determining M'hat 

 line of coaduct to pursue. 



A humble, though independent, me- 

 morial was drawn tip and immediately 

 transmitted to the governor, stating 

 our total inability to bear the expense, 

 and that if the f 10 (whicli was all the 

 property that many vA'ere possessed of) 

 was taken for the purpose, it would 

 deprive them of all prospect of succeed- 

 ing. To this memorial we received a 

 very satisfactory answer from his Ex- 

 cellency, desiring us to give ourselves 

 no uneasiness on the subject, for al- 

 though he could not undertake to say 

 we should not ultimately pay the ex- 

 penses of land carriage, he assured us 

 that we should never be distressed for 

 it, and that he had not the smallest 

 doubt, but that on representing the 

 case to the British government, it would 

 be arranged to our satisfaction ; indeed 

 from the general treatment we have 

 met with since leaving our native coun- 

 try, we have every reason to believe this 

 to liave been an overs iglit on the part 

 of his Majesty's government. 



On the27tli March we again weighed 

 anchor, with a fair wind, for Algoa Bay, 

 the Nautilus accompanjnng us. We 

 stnod our course together with a fine 

 breeze til 1 towards night, when the wind 

 drawing right a-head, we remained 

 beating about till tlie next Sunday, 

 wlien we were entirely becalmed the 

 whole of the day ; but at night, a 

 hreez(! springing up from the NW. we 

 dj'opped anchor in Algoa Bay, a( 5 p.m. 

 on the day following. Thus had we 

 arrived, after a long, though remark- 

 ably fine passage of upwanls of four 

 months, having lost seven children and 

 one woman, who died after our arrival 

 at Algoa Hay, and having had eight 

 births during the passage. We all now 

 remained in excellenthealth. 



On the morning after our arrival, 

 preparations were made for landing as 

 many of tiie women and children as 

 possible, as there is a tremendous surf 

 continually running here, so that ships' 

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boats are not able to land, but convey 

 tlieir load to a buoy, from which there 

 is a warp to the shore, passing through 

 the stem and stern of the surf-boat, 

 which here receives the contents, and 

 thus conveys it within a few yards of 

 the shore, where there are men in wait- 

 ing, up to their middles in water, to 

 receive the contents of her and convey 

 it on shore. The weather continuing 

 remarkably fine, every advantage was 

 taken of it, and in three days the old 

 Chapman was entirely cleared of her 

 live lumber-. We found, on landing, 

 a very deplorable place, with about a 

 dozen houses, or more properly speak- 

 ing, huts, with a few Hottentot kralls, 

 of a semi-circular form, composed of a 

 few sticks, Mith a rush covering, hud- 

 dled together, each containing six or 

 eight families. This place is now much 

 improved by the arrival of (he settlers, 

 some of whom have obtained permis- 

 sion to remain here; and, in all proba- 

 bility, Algoa Bay will, in the course 

 of time, be a place of considerable 

 importance. On the goveruoi's last 

 visit to this place, it was named 

 Port Elizabeth, and a montiment to 

 tiie memory of Lady Donkin (his de- 

 ceased wife) is now in a state of for- 

 wardness there. We here pitcliedour 

 tents, having received all kinds of camp 

 equipage at Ca()e Town, and remained 

 eight days, being supplied with rations 

 or allowances of provision, consisting 

 of meat, bread, wood, and candles, by 

 the Commissary. During our stay we 

 were employed in loading the waggons, 

 which had been some time in waiting 

 prior to our arrival. 



fTo be comjjhfed in our next. J 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



AVING occasion, about eighteen 

 months ago, to take a sea voyage 

 for the first time in my life, I felt 

 of course very desirous to avoid, if 

 possible, that disagreeable companion, 

 sea sickness. 1 found tliat so long as I 

 coTild persuade myself to yield freely 

 to the motion of the vessel, so long I 

 was entirely free from disagreeable feel- 

 ings, but the moment I began to resist 

 the swing, immediately qualmishness 

 commenced, and subsequent experience 

 in small vessels, in all kinds of weather, 

 has confirmed me in the idea, (hat this 

 resistance is the occasion of the sick- 

 ness ; one remarkable proof of it is, 

 tliat those who are habitually affected 

 with sickness at sea. find on awaking 

 2C out 



