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VOYAGE TO THE CAPE. 
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noon we were able to direct our course once more 
towards the Cape; but on the 17th, when within 
about a hundred miles of it, violent squalls from the 
S. E. drove us out to sea again : that evenino^ the sea 
rose and raged as high and furious as ever. About 
nine o'clock the elements seemed conspiring to 
effect our destruction, which produced a very serious 
meeting for prayer in the cabin, for our preservation 
from the fury of the raging storm. During prayer 
the violent heaving of the ship rendered it almost 
impossible to remain in one posture. Every cup 
and saucer we had in use was broken to pieces. At 
one, next morning, a powerful sea broke over the 
stern, and came rushing down into our cabin : when 
at breakfast the same thing was repeated. On the 
2Gth our allowance of water was a second time 
reduced. On the 21st. at five, P. M. a seaman from 
the mast-head descried land, which on the following 
day we found to be the south side of the entrance 
to Saldanha bay. Having seen no land for ten weeks, 
the sight was peculiarly gratifying. At eleven, A. M. 
Table Mountain, which stands immediately behind 
Cape-town, was seen from the deck. On the Q3d, at 
two o'clock in the morning, a squall, which lasted 
three hours, drove us again out to sea ; but at noon the 
wind becoming favourable, we were brought by the 
evening within eighteen miles of our port, and next 
morning at ten A.M. by the good providence of God, 
we cast anchor in Table Bay, opposite to Cape-town ; 
exactly four months after sailing from Gravesend. I 
went ashore with my good friend Mr. Kenneth 
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