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AMONGST THE

KAFFIR TRIBES IN AFRICA.

CHAPTER I.

Voyage to the Cape-Discomforts of a long voyage-The wolf turned lamb -Porpesses and Portuguese men-of-war-The mate's story-Catching a shark-An albatross hooked-Cape Town-Algoa Bay-Ox-waggonSouth-African travelling-Obstinacy conquered-Expeditious journeying -Frontier of the colony.

To an indifferent sailor, a long voyage is not by any means a pleasant thing; and I quite agree with the sage who said that a man on board a ship was a prisoner, with the additional risk of being drowned. One feels a continual yearning for the green fields, fresh butter and milk; and the continual noise, confusion, and other disagreeables, are more trying to temper and patience than can be imagined by a quiet stay-at-home gentleman.

We left England in the coldest weather that had been remembered for years. A month's daily skating on the Serpentine was a bad preparation for a week's calm, under a burning sun, within a degree of the line, twenty-seven days afterwards. The frames of Englishmen, however, appear to be better adapted for the changes of climate than are those of the inhabitants of any other country.

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