WANDERINGS AND ADVENTURES 



INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, 



PART THE FIRST. 



CHAPTER I. 



Algoa Bay — Bethelsdorp — Graham's Town — Fort Wiltshire — Native 

 war dance — Caffer fair — Gaika and Botuman — Caffer chiefs — 

 Interior of a Chiefs hut — Savage mode of slaughtering an ox — ■ 

 A feast — " Barsaala" — A Caffer's encounter with an elephant — 

 Arrival at Mount Coke. 



I embarked, from Table Bay, on board the brig 

 Mary, a vessel of about one hundred tons, com- 

 manded by Captain S. Phelps, and bound for 

 Algoa Bay, which is situated on the South-eastern 

 coast, about five hundred miles from Cape Town. 

 Doubling the Cape is well known to voyagers in con- 

 nexion with a heavy sea and tempestuous weather, 

 and it was not our lot, in the present instance, to escape 

 without a few rough breezes ; but we reached the 

 place of our destination after a passage of fourteen 

 days, notwithstanding a rather dangerous proximity to 

 the Doddington Rock, so called from an East-India- 

 man of that name having been wrecked some years 



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