302 WHALING AND FISHING, 



They had the bright yellow color, the high cheek 

 bones, and lithe figures of the native Malaccan. 

 The Africaners were fine looking men, with long 

 wavy hair, and sharp features. 



The boats are hauled to and from shore by 

 means of large coir hawsers, stretched along over 

 the bottom of the bay, from the landing to the 

 anchorage. We were scarcely at anchor when a 

 surf-boat was seen putting out toward us, over- 

 hauling and carrying along a hawser which had 

 before lain at the bottom, and which they guessed 

 would be found, at its outer end, to be moored bu1 

 a little distance from our vessel. They were mis- 

 taken, however. But the moorings of these lines 

 are buoyed ; and a few minutes after they got out 

 to us sufficed to pick up a line which was suited to 

 our place. This was immediately made fast to 

 our bows, by the light, to use a sailor-phrase, the 

 end remaining fast to its moorings at the bottom. 

 This completed, the captain jumped into the surf- 

 boat, and was taken ashore. We now learned 

 for the first time, that as this was the South-easter 

 peason in Algoa Bay, no one but the captain was 

 allowed to go ashore. This was a sad disappoint- 

 ment to me, again, as I had set my heart upon an 

 exploration of the place and would not have 

 hesitated to accompany some old Cape farmer 

 into the backwoods of Afiica. But the fates 

 ordained otherwise. 



These Cape " Boors," as they are called, seem to 

 be a queer set. With a good spy -glass we could 



