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the equator debilitates and exhausts ; scarcely a 

 day of the voyage was not marked by considerable 

 rolling or pitching, and the imperfect ventilation, 

 the inferior food, and the want of power and speed 

 in the older Cape vessels lead one to hope that 

 before loni>' an increasino- volume of passeno'er 

 traffic may com2:)el the construction of larger, better 

 found, and swifter ships, ri\'alling in their excellence 

 the racers of the Xorth Atlantic lines. I imagine 

 that a vessel like the Teutonic could cover the dis- 

 tance between Plymouth and the Cape of Good 

 Hope in less than fourteen days. The Graiittdh/ 

 Cadle occupied a period of nineteen days and nine- 

 teen hours. On landing, I repaired to Govern- 

 ment House, to which I liad received a gracious 

 invitation. 



