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loaders, and such, a weiglit that I inwardly hoped I might 
never have to carry them far. This afternoon I was busy 
with Kemp in getting our heavy luggage trans-shipped 
from the African" to the ^^Zulu," the coasting steamer, 
advertised to sail on the 8th for Natal. 
April 5th. We went to Wynberg by rail, and then 
drove to Constantia to see the vineyard, where the 
wine of that name is manufactured. The proprietor 
very civil, and shewed us all over the place. We have 
arrived at the plentiful season for grapes, and enjoy 
them immensely. Magnificent muscatels, and as cheap 
as dirt. 
April 6th. Sunday. Went to service at the cathedral, 
so called, a building more like a barn or a corn warehouse 
than our idea of a cathedral. Much excitement caused by 
one of the congregation going off into a fit during service ; 
and I noticed many others leaving the church overcome by 
the heat, which the colonials seemed to feel more than we 
new comers. Went out to Mowbray to dine, and spend 
the afternoon with the Bleeks. Saw two bushmen there, 
great curiosities, more like baboons than men ; perhaps 
the connecting link in Darwin's chain between man and 
the ape. Dr. Bleek had got them, through the government, 
to assist him in compiling his dictionary of their most 
extraordinary language. The poor fellow on board ship, 
I mentioned before, died yesterday in the hospital, to 
which he had been removed on our arrival, as he had not 
a friend in the Colony, and only a few shillings in his 
pocket ; so he was buried by the Union Company, who 
saved his passage-money to Durban. As we heard some 
alarming accounts of the wrecks along the sea coast, I 
insured our things, and had to pay double the rate charged 
from England to the Cape, shewing there was some foun- 
dation for the reports we heard. 
April 8th. Went on board the '^Zulu." The change 
