INTRODUCTION. xxv 
journey, the expence of them already amount- 
ed to a very confiderable fam. ^Nothing 
was to be feen but preparations for war and 
the means of defence. It appeared as if every 
inch of ground was meant to be difpoted 
with the enemy ; and if the company had 
reafon to complain of the enormous cofi: 
with which thefe preparations were attended^ 
they at any rate proved, that thofe into whofe 
hands they had intrufted one of their mod 
important poffefiions negleded nothing which 
they thought calculated to preferve it. 
From the Table Mountain to Falfe Bay the 
whole road was lined with fmall redoubts^ 
which, being conftruded in fuch a manner as 
to fupport each other, feemed likely to check 
the enemyj or at lead retard him in his 
march. 
Another road which conduded from the 
town to Baie-aux'his (woody bay) was for- 
h 3 tified 
