INTRODUCTION. 
The reader will recollea that I did not 
return to the Cape till after a fix months 
journey through the interior parts of thq 
fouthern extremity of Africa. 
During niy abfence, the Cape had expe- 
rienced many revolutions. On my arrival 
from Europe, I found there the French regi- 
ment of Pondicherry ; and, on my return 
from this fir ft journey, the garrifon was re- 
inforced with the Swifs regiment of Meu- 
ron and the legion de Luxembourg. I had 
been acquainted, in France, with feveral 
officers of the latter corps ; and I felt, on 
feeing them again, all thofe tender fenfa- 
tions 
