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AMONGST THE 



KAFFIK TEIBES IN AFEICA. 



CHAPTER I. 



Voyage to the Cape Discomforts of a long voyage The wolf turned lamb 

 Porpesses and Portuguese men-of-war The mate's story Catching a 

 shark An albatross hooked Cape Town Algoa Bay Ox-waggon 

 South-African travelling Obstinacy conquered Expeditious journeying 

 Frontier of the colony. 



To an indifferent sailor, a long voyage is not by any 

 means a pleasant thing; and I quite agree with the sage 

 who said that a man on board a ship was a prisoner, with 

 the additional risk of being drowned. One feels a con- 

 tinual yearning for the green fields, fresh butter and milk ; 

 and the continual noise, confusion, and other disagree- 

 ables, are more trying to temper and patience than can be 

 imagined by a quiet stay-at-home gentleman. 



We left England in the coldest weather that had been 

 remembered for years. A month's daily skating on the 

 Serpentine was a bad preparation for a week's calm, under 

 a burning sun, within a degree of the line, twenty-seven 

 days afterwards. The frames of Englishmen, however, 

 appear to be better adapted for the changes of climate 

 than are those of the inhabitants of any other country. 



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