Notes on the So-called ‘‘ Post Office Stone.” 191, 
for the details of the voyages recorded on the Post Office stones, 
while the latter has undertaken the translation and transcription of 
the Plettenberg Bay Stone. I will now proceed to say a few words 
about each of the stones in order. 
I.—TuHEr DutcH ORPHANAGE STONE. 
An old inscribed stone, which was no doubt found in Cape Town, 
but of which the exact history is unknown, was for a long time in 
the possession of the Trustees of the Dutch Orphanage in Long 
Street. It was presented to the South African Museum in 1896, 
and is now preserved in that institution. It is a large block of 
sandstone, and contains traces of two separate inscriptions. On the 
two larger faces these are as follows :— 
“HE WILL RRIVED “FR FVYAST of 
SEPTEMBER FROM SURAT 
DEPNAT ‘FH 18 DiTto 1618 
CHRIS. BROWN, COM M{AND] 
AR THUR KRYCY 
PREACHER OF FE 
The name of the ship is the Wallzam, which, as stated, arrived at 
Table Bay on the Ist, and sailed again on the 18th of September, 
1628, reaching England in the following December (Journ. in I. O. 
Records Marine, No. xlv.). Christopher Browne was her com- 
mander, and Arthur Hatch was the preacher on board. The latter 
went out first in 1619, returning in 1623; then in the present 
voyage (1626-8), and a third time in the Charles in 1632. He wrote 
‘‘a letter touching Japon,’ which is printed in ‘‘ Purchas His Pil- 
grimes”’ (vol. ii., p. 1696). The letter was written from Wingham, 
in Kent, and is dated the 25th of November, 1623, and must have 
been prepared after his return from his first voyage. 
