EXCURSIONS DACEE's PULPIT 



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Our hands being now free, the first object to which we 

 turned our attention was to secure a vessel to cany us back 

 to Walfisch Bay. There happened just then to be none at 

 the Cape but we were promised one within a certain period. 

 In the mean time, we occupied ourselves in making the need- 

 ful purchases, &c. 



I also made excursions into the neighborhood. Among 

 other interesting places, I visited, in company with Mr. Bain 

 (the distinguished South African geologist), the famous pass, 

 called after my kind host. Bain's Kloof, through which the 

 road leads across the Drakenstein mountains from the village 

 of Wellington to the district of Worcestershire. The vig- 

 nette below is a view of a certain part of the pass designated 



dacee's ptjlpit. 



Dacre's pulpit, and has been selected from the portfolio ot 

 an accomplished friend in Cape-Town. 



We had nearly finished our arrangements when the new •■ 

 arrived at the Cape of the extraordinary successes met with 



