70 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



CHAPTER III. 



Stay at the Cafe of Good Hope. Depofitions of 

 two French Captains, by which it appears that, 

 being at Hatavia, they had learnt from Com- 

 modore Hunter, that he had feen at the Admi- 

 ralty lflandsfome natives dreffed in the uniform 

 of the French navy. Captain Bligh fent from 

 England to procure the bread-fruit tree at the 

 Society lflands. Violence of the fouth-eafi 

 winds. Local caufe which increases their im- 

 petuofity.~A Jlave-Jhip. Various excurfions to 

 the mountains in the vicinity of the town. 

 Impudence of the Fifcal. Journey to Franche- 

 Hoek. 



JL WO officers of health of Cape Town came 

 on board to latisfy themfelvcs that we brought 

 no contagious dilbrders : it is particularly the 

 fmall-pox which they dread ; for that malady, 

 which is not cndemical in this country, makes 

 here, as well as throughout all India, the moil 

 dreadful ravages when brought from abroad. 



A raotain of a merchant-fhip, arrived from 

 Bourdeaux a few days before us, came alfo to 

 inform us, that the commander of the naval 



forces 



