CONTENTS. 



Departure from Bombay to England—regret on leaving India — sail 

 for the Cape of Good Hope in the Betsey schooner — Cape Bassos 

 and the coast of Africa — mermaids at Mosambique and Mombaz; 

 various accounts of those creatures — Melinda — calms and unplea- 

 sant weather near the equator — Cape St. Sebastian — currents; 

 storms near the Cape of Good Hope — whales — Bay False — Sim- 

 mons' harbour — Isthmus between Table Bay and Bay False — Dutch 

 settlement at Simmons' harbour— journey from thence to Cape-town 

 — carriages — roads — general aspect of the country — protea — ac- 

 count of the Cape — climate, variation of the compass, and weather 

 — Table mountain — contiguous mountains — Cape-town — public and 

 private buildings — gardens ; fruits, flowers, trees — menagerie — 

 inhabitants of Cape-town — character of the men, inferior to that 

 of the women — disproportion of the sexes — boarding houses — cheap- 

 ness of living — fraud of the washerwomen — price of different arti- 

 cles — scarcity of timber — beauty and variety of the plants — distant 

 farms — character of the Dutch farmers; their cruelty and savage 

 traits; some causes assigned for their degeneracy — great stock of 

 those farms — vineyards — Dutch government of the colony— first 

 establishment there — character of the Hottentots — Boshmen — Caf- 

 fraria — wild animals at the Cape — hippopotamus — rhinoceros — 

 camelo-pardalis — zebra — monkeys — orang-outang — mongoose — 

 mocock — birds in southern Africa— ostrich— cassowary — Java pigeon 



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