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tones of one's native language, or the reminiscences 

 of one's earlier and happier years, which such ameet- 

 ing recalls, are sure to bestow upon it a pleasure of its 

 own. What was it then to meet a former fellow 

 voyager, and a friend ? To meet him after almost 

 despairing of his safety? and to meet him fresh from 

 a perilous and partially successful attempt to penetrate 

 into the same unknown and mysterious country, a 

 further and more perfect acquaintance with v;hich 

 was a prime object of my own personal ambition, no 

 less than of public duty with all engaged in our pre- 

 sent adventure ? Those who have known the com- 

 munion of sentiment and interest, which it is 

 the tendency of one common purpose to create among 

 all by whom that purpose is shared, can most readily 

 and most perfectly understand with what deep and 

 mutual interest Lieut. Grey and myself heard and 

 recounted all that each had done since our parting at 

 the Cape. 



Several anecdotes of his adventures confirmed mv 

 own experience, and add weight to the opinions I 

 have before expressed. From his description of 

 the tribes his party had encountered, he must have 

 been among a people more advanced in civilization 

 than any we had hitherto seen upon this coast. He 

 found several curious figures,* images, and draw- 

 ings, generally in colours, upon the sides of caves in 

 the sandstone rock, which, notwithstanding their rude 

 style, yet evince a greater degree of advancement and 

 * Illustrated in Lieut. Grey's first Volume. 



