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purpose of making the necessary arrangements, Lieu- 

 tenant Farewell determined on returning overland 

 to his possessions in Natal, having fully ascertained 

 that the journey could be accomplished with little 

 difficulty, as there was abundance of water and 

 food for the cattle throughout the whole route, 

 and every prospect of obtaining supplies from the 

 natives at a very trifling cost. His intention be- 

 ing generally known, several persons of a specula- 

 tive turn soon offered to join him in this ex- 

 pedition. Amongst others, Mr. William Walker, 

 whom I had brought out with me to the Cape in 

 1824, proposed to accompany him in the capacity of 

 naturalist. Mr. Walker was a young man of good 

 education and promising abilities, possessing great 

 love of enterprise, and had long ardently desired to 

 explore the interior of the country, having remarked 

 to me on one occasion, that nothing would delight 

 him more than to follow the footsteps of Park — little 

 thinking at the time how soon he was to suffer the 

 fate of that distinguished traveller. 



On the 6th August, 1829, the party started from 

 Uitenhage, proceeded to Graham's Town, and from 

 thence crossed the Keiskamma River into Cafferland. 

 On the 7th of September they passed the Missionary 

 station at Butterworth *, where Mr. Farewell ex- 



* A few months previously to Mr. Farewell's visit, a French vessel 

 had been wrecked on the coast at a short distance from this place, of 

 which Mr. Shrewsbury gives the following interesting particulars. 

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