42 MY FELLOW-PASSENGEKS. 



governor's great toe. They appeared to be in high 

 spirits, and, in answer to my " Uya pina ? " (Where are 

 you going ?) shouted with exultation, " Goduka " (Going 

 home) . 



The little ship that carried me and my goods from 

 Port Elizabeth was badly supplied in every way. The 

 captain was a happy bridegroom, and because he had 

 been living for a fortnight on love, seemed to think that 

 others should have equally as refined an appetite. I 

 thought that even our start was bad, for there was some- 

 thing wrong in getting the anchor up. 



The other passengers were two in number, the one a 

 jolly fat Dutchman, who used to sit in his little chest- 

 of-drawers-like bed-place, and tootle unknown airs on a 

 flute ; and the other a carpenter well to do at Natal, who 

 never changed his clothes, and talked through his nose. 



As the cabin was only eight feet square, there was no 

 place for the latter individual to sleep upon but the floor. 

 He shook down a blanket for his bed, and regularly at 

 about ten o'clock became horizontal, and, looking at me 

 with only one eye open, remarked that he " turned in all 

 standing like a trooper's 'orse." This he repeated with 

 precisely the same expression of face every night, till at 

 last it made me quite nervous, and I used to remain very 

 late on deck for the sole object of escaping this infliction. 

 When he did not use his nose for talking, he still pre- 

 vented it from lying silent by snoring through it with a 

 sound like a locomotive engine blowing off steam. 



The distance from Algoa Bay to Natal was but 600 

 miles, and yet we were twenty-three days on that tern- 



