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APPENDIX, No. 2. 
Wreck of the Grosvenor East Indiaman—An Expedition leaves the 
Colony in search of the survivors of the Wreck—Discover a 
party of Mulattoes, descendants of Europeans wrecked on the 
coast of Caffer-land about twenty years previous fo the loss of. 
that vessel—Rev. W. Shaw visits these people in 1828. 
Tue Grosvenor, East Indiaman, Captain Coxon, com- 
mander, was wrecked on the coast of Caffraria on the 4th of 
August, 1782.* Several of the crew perished in attempting 
to gain the land, but the greater part were saved on a frag- 
ment of the wreck which drifted ashore. Those who escaped, 
amounting to one hundred and twenty-seven persons, among 
whom were three ladies, six children, and several gentle- 
men, passengers, set forward, August 7th, with the in- 
tention of travelling by land to the Cape of Good Hope, but 
being ignorant of the distance, and without provisions or 
guides to conduct them, they were bewildered in the track- 
less and inhospitable wastes, and it is feared were destroyed 
by the natives, or died of hunger and fatigue, excepting eight 
seamen, and one black woman-servant, who, after having ex- 
perienced the most unparalleled distress for near four months, 
at length providentially succeeded in reaching the Cape. 
In 1796, the ship “ Hercules,’ an American vessel, 
Captain Stout, commander, was wrecked on the same coast, 
and the natives informed the Captain, that Captain Coxon 
of the Grosvenor, and the men with him, were slain in re- 
sisting the will of a Caffer Chief, who insisted on taking the 
two white ladies to his kraal. ‘The Captain and his party, 
not being armed, were immediately destroyed. ‘The fate 
* The accompanying plate of the wreck of the Grosvenor is from a 
painting by Smirke, published in 1784. 
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