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CHAPTER II. 
Ship run on shore on the coast of CafFraria. — Dreadful 
situation of the crew. — Their manner of landing 
described. — Their reception by the natives. — Some 
curious and interesting particulars respecting Cap- 
tain Coxson, commander of the Grosvenor, lost on 
the same coast, in 1/82, and of several of his people, 
particularly a lady, who is now living with a CafFree 
chief. 
We were now on the coast of Caffraria, 
within a few leagues where the river Infanta 
disembogues itself into the sea. 
A dreadful crisis approached, and we 
agreed to meet it with becoming fortitude. 
I therefore gave directions to set the head 
sail, to heave the spring well tort, in order 
to get her head towards the shore, and then 
to cut the cable and the spring. My orders 
were obeyed with the greatest promptitude. 
After running until within something 
less than half a mile of the shore, she struck 
on a cluster of rocks. The swell at this mo- 
ment was tremendous j and, from the ship's 
thumping so violently, it was scarcely pos- 
sible for the men to hold on. In this situa- 
