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to wait till 10 o'clock, when the authorities expected 
further news from Pieter-Maritzburg. However, the 
steamer was fortunately not required, and we were soon 
out of sight of the lighthouse and the hills round the Bay 
of Natal. 
November 10th. Reached East London, and again were 
detained by the weather preventing the cargo boats from 
coming off; so we lay tossing about in the everlasting swell, 
and heartily wishing ourselves ashore again. There was 
one unfortunate sailing craft which had been lying here 
six weeks, and had only discharged one boat load of cargo. 
Both of us have been ill, but are getting over it again. 
November 12th, Still at this detestable hole. Took in 
some additional passengers, in the shape of eleven nigger 
convicts and their keeper, bound for Capetown, to work on 
the breakwater there ; they were all in irons, but looked 
harmless enough, and incapable of much violence, but 
they were all actual or would-be murderers. 
November ISth. Thankful were we to get away this 
afternoon, and next morning reached Port Elizabeth, and 
the sea being smooth we enjoyed a quiet anchorage. 
Between East London and Port Elizabeth we passed by 
enormous tracts of uninhabited forest of almost boundless 
extent, and here it was that the Duke of Edinburgh killed 
his elephant, of which game some few still remain here, 
and are preserved by the Directors of the Government, or, 
of course, they would be soon destroyed. Went on shore 
with E., and walked over the gardens, which are certainly 
very good considering the soil, position, and great want of 
water which the plants have to contend against. No rain 
having fallen here for eighteen months, and no springs or 
natural supply of any kind, the whole place seems burnt 
up. Next day we finished discharging cargo, and sailed 
again, a Dutch gentleman, his wife and thirteen children 
having considerably increased our party in the saloon ; but 
