SIGNAL STATION. 



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course with a pained and listless step, scarcely knowing what 

 I was about, and staggering like a drunken man. "This," 

 says Captain Messum, when speaking of the hardships he had 

 undergone in a short tour into the interior of the West Coast, 

 "was the pleasure of traveling in Africa. It requires the 

 endurance of a camel and the courage of a lion." 



BTGNAL STATION AT CAPE-TOWN. 



