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library, containing a more valuable selection of books than was 
probably ever before seen within the liroits of our Eastern Empire 
On the 4th of October we again set sail from Bombay, and on 
the 4th of December reached the Cape of Good Hope, where I was 
welcomed most kindly by my former friends and acquaintance, 
several of whom, owing to our long delay, had entertained 
serious alarm for my safety. At this time, I was sorry to learn 
from Lord Caledon that no satisfactory intelligence had been 
received, since my visit to the Settlement, respecting Mr. Cowan 
or the party which had gone up with him into the country, but 
on the contrary that there was too much reason to suppose that 
they had fallen victims to the ignorance and mistaken jealousy of 
some of the barbarous tribes of natives in the interior, thus further 
adding to the melancholy list of those enterprising and unfortu- 
nate travellers who have fallen a sacrifice to their generous efforts, 
in attempting to diffuse the blessings of civilization among the 
hitherto oppressed inhabitants of Africa. 
On the 12th of December the Marian left the Cape of Good 
Hope, and on the 29th touched at St. Helena, and, after a 
remarkably fine passage, on the 10th of January, 1811, reached 
the coast of England, when, on the following day, T had the 
pleasure of landing at the Port of Penzance in Cornwall Thence 
I proceeded to London, where, after laying a statement of the 
transactions which had occurred during the two years I had been 
absent before the Marquess Wellesley, then Secretary of State for 
Foreign Affairs, I had the honour of receiving his unqualified 
approbation of my proceedings, a circumstance which I may be 
excused for mentioning with some degree of pride, as His Lord- 
