CONTENTS. 
Editor's Address Page ix 
Dedication. 1 
CHAPTER I. 
Sailing of the ship Hercules from Sagar-roads, in the 
province of Bengal. — Description of the tempest. — 
Dreadful situation of the ship. — Second mate and 
three men ordered into the long boat. — Raft pre- 
. pared. — Carpenter and sailors address the captain. — 
. ,^ Remarkable instance of prejudice and intrepidity in 
a Lascar, — The captain holds a consultation with his 
officers. — Determines, if possible, to run the ship on 
the eastern coast of Africa. . . . 35 
CHAPTER II. 
Ship run on shore on the coast of Caffraria. — Dreadful 
situation of the crev/. — 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 1782, and of several of his people, 
particularly a lady, who is now living with a CafFree 
chief. . 47 
