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ncirrative was written by a Captain 
Benjamin Stout, a relative of Mr, 
Adams, who commanded an American 
ship, named the Hercules, in 1795, 
which then lay in Sagar Roads, in the 
province of Bengal, and in the suc- 
ceeding year w^as lost on the coast of 
CafFraria, a few miles distant from the 
mouth of the river Infanta, where the 
Grosvenor Indiaman perished in J 782. 
The captain and such of his people as 
survived the wreck were most hos- 
pitably received by the natives, and 
when recovered were conducted by 
guides through the deserts of CafFra- 
ria to the Christian settlements. 
On a careful perusal of this narra- 
tive, we found it v/ritten in a style 
of uncommon perspicuity, conciseness, 
and elegance ; but what rendered it 
