The other party, twenty-two in number, went inland, and were three days out of fight of the fea: they were four days without feeing any inhabitants, though they faw fome old hats, and many wild beatts, elephants, tygers, &c. Being diftreffed for provifions, they returned to the coaft, where they fed on fhellfish, and fared pretty well when they came up with a dead whale, of which they faw three or four. They did not eat of the first or fecond, having no knife, but made a fhift afterwards to cut it with a fpike-nail, 'till Warmington (now in London) found a knife in a boat upfet on the fhore. In about three weeks or a month after parting with the captain and ladies, they came into a fandy country. By this time they were feparated into fmall parties. The party in which T. Lewis (now in Lon don) was, confifted of eleven perfons. Hubberly told him Mr. Shaw was the first who died, and, in three days after, John Hawes died. Lewis came on alone, and came up with the car penter, &c. near a deep narrow river. At the end of fortynine days from leaving the fhip, according to the carpenter's account, captain Talbot's fervant Ifaac, who had been his cockfwain, and Patrick Burn, ftopped at the river: he fwam back, and told them to make a cattamaran, and he would fwim it over, which he did, and brought them acrofs. Two days after he joined them, the carpenter, Thomas Page, died, and was buried in the fand. Afterwards he came to another river, where he joined feveral here he eat a piece of a whale, which made him fick. From hence he went back feven days by himself, and met James Sims, John Brown, and Edward Croaker: John Blain was lying dead in a hut he propofed to go back to the natives; Brown was not able to come, but he and the other two went back 'till they came to the river where he had met the carpenter; then his companions would go no farther: he fwam acrofs at low water, and next morning he faw two of the natives on the fea-fide: they feemed travelling; they looked at him, and pointed to go along with them, but they were going another way, that is, to the weftward. The fame afternoon he faw three girls on the fhore: they took him home, about a mile or a mile and a half from the coaft, where there were about fix huts in the krawl: the men were broiling meat; they all came round him, and he making figns for fomething to eat, they gave him a little milk, but took his mufcles from him, and afterwards drove him away, throwing ftones at him he went to another krawl, about a quarter of a mile diftant, and they gave him fome milk; he ftaid there all night under the trees, and next morning went to another krawl, and then came back to the firk, krawl, and there found Francifco Feancon and S. Paro, (the

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two before-mentioned, as having staid behind to swim across the river,) who had come through the country, and not along the coaft they ftaid at that krawl, and he went to another about half a mile from the firft krawl, and flaid with the Caffrees three months, taking care of their calves, and gathering wood. When he had been about three weeks with the Caffrees, William Hubberly, Mr. Shaw's fervant, came there: he told him all his companions were dead; Mr. Williams was driven into a river, and killed by the natives throwing tones on him; Mr. Taylor would eat nothing after, and in two days died. About fixteen or eighteen days after Hubberly came, Feancon and Paro left the huts. After a month's abfence Feancon returned, and told him that Paro was dead; alfo, that Thomson the midshipman, Parker, and Burne, were dead. Robert Price, the boy, from the information of De Larfo, who went in quest of the wreck, fays that Feancon and Paro had come within three days journey of the Dutch farms, when they returned. Feancon was nine days in the defart, without water but his own urine, and then Paro died.

The Hottentots fent by Daniel King from the Dutch, farms Swartkops, brought them through the country; and on the 15th of January, 1783, ten or eleven days after fetting out from the krawl, he met at Sondago river the waggons going towards the wreck, with Jeremiah Evans, and Francifco de Larfo, who had been twenty eight days from Landrofs van Swellendam. They wanted Lewis to have returned with them, but he would not, thinking he had already fuffered enough. Lewis ftaid at Kat Skypper's houfe, at Swartkops, two months: near it is the first hole belonging to Chriftian Feroos, to which John Potofs brought the others who had travelled along the coalt; and in the neighbourhood is Daniel King's, a Hanoverian, with whom the boy remained. The Lafcars and Mrs. Hofea's maid left them at firit: Mrs. Logie's maid told him the captain had left Mr. and Mrs. Logie, and Mr. and Mrs. Hofea, behind.

The Lafcars and black maids were left at Landros van Swellendam. Thomas Lewis was ten days at the Cape, and failed from thence the 7th of May, in the Danifh fhip King of Denmark. The governor of the Cape has fent again in quel of the people; Daniel King goes himself, and carries prefents of copper, brafs, and beads, for the Caffrees, in order to induce them to deliver up fuch of the unfortunate travellers as may remain in their power.

When the party with which John Warmington was, first came to the fandy country, only eight of them then remained together; they had not then overtaken any of the party in

which the boy and Latey were. Three weeks or a month after entering the fandy country, they came to a falt-water river, too deep to wade. At this time only four of the eight remained together, viz. Warmington, Fruel, Fitzgerald, and Haynes; but they had overtaken Lillburne with Mafter Law, Auld, the cooper, and Jeremiah Evans; and at this river they came up with the boy, Larey, De Larfo, the armourer, William Couch, Simmonds, and Schultz.

Thus ends the narrative of the party with whom John Wamington and Thomas Lewis travelled. What follows, is the journal of the party with which Robert Price and Barney Larey remained.

Some of the natives, whom they met on the fea-fide, pat a lance and a knobby flick into his hand, by way of making friends, and took him by the arm, wanting him to go with them; but he began to cry, and William Coach, who was his comrade, helping one another ever fince the wreck, and the other alfo, fell a crying; whereupon the natives let him go. This was in the fecond inhabited country, after leaving the Portuguese. These were the laft Caffrees they faw.-After coming into the fandy country, they faw no natives. The fandy country is fand hills, fo loofe, that they could not go over them, and only could travel at low water, where the sea ebbed and made it hard. They found rocks fcattered on the fhore in many places, and one rocky part to the fea, which they could only pass at low water; but luckily they came to it at low wa

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A little before they came to Great Visch river, which was in fight from a rifing ground, they passed a little gulley, where they were called to by Paddy Burne, and Mr. Lillburne : Thomas Lewis and John Squires were there; the carpenter then dead, and buried at that place. Great Viích river is very broad at high water, like a fea, but narrow at low; it has flat fands at the mouth, and fome black rocks on this fide. De Larfo was almoft drowned by the eddy tide in fwimming across. The - others paffed in cattamarans, made of rotten wood and ftumps of trees, brought down by the rivers and thrown up, which they tied with their handkerchiefs, and roots that grow on the fand twitted together: they waded, and guided the cattamarans round the fand-banks, 'till they came to the narrow deep part. Lewis, Larey, and the armourer, were left behind the first day, their cattamaran having gone across the river without them. Couch, Schultz, and Simmonds, paffed over at that time; they staid that night, and paffed Great Vifch river next morning: Mr. Lillburne ftaid to fleep there that night, intending to go back

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to a whale with him remained Mafter Law, Warmington, Fruel, Fitzgerald, Haynes, and Evans, who croffed the river afterwards; and the following, who did not cross the river, viz. P. Burne, G. Creighton, J. Squires, and Ifaac, captain Talbot's cockfwain, together with one of the Lafcars, who is arrived at the Cape. The Lafcar faid it was a great way to the Cape, and that he would go back and look for the natives.

Thofe who had gone over the Great Visch river, found a porpoife left among the rocks: Francifco De Larfo caught hold of his tail, and it fplashed him all over; but he at laft fuck it with a little knife, which he brought with him to Landrofs, and gave to Mrs. Logie's maid. They continued on, after having stopped at the fresh water creek where the top-gallant-maft was feen, 'till they came to a pond where was fresh water, and there ftopped they went up a fteep fandy hill, and staid in a fine jungle on the top of the hill, where they made a fire. When Price and his two companions croffed Great Vifch river, they followed the others by their track, and called out where they faw the tracks ftriking up from the fhore, when William Couch anfwered it was then dark, and they joined on the top of the hill. After coming up with them, they were five or fix days before they paffed Bofchieman's river, and afterwards came to a great bay in the fandy country, with three islands, which are Imall, white, and round, the fartheft about four or five miles off fhore.. There is not much furf in this bay; Sondago river falls into it. Only five of their party remained together when they came to this bay, viz. De Larfo, Larey, William Couch, the armourer, and Robert Price. Here William Couch died; they buried him, faid prayers over him, fhook hands, and fwore they would never feparate again 'till they got into a Chriftian coun try.

At this bay they were overtaken by John Hynes and Jere miah Evans, who told them Warmington was left behind, almoft dead: Larey went back and brought him. By this time they had found fand-creepers, which are a kind of cockles, that hide under the fand; fo that they had plenty of victuals when joined by Hynes and Evans.-The armourer went back with Evans to look for Mr. Lillburne, Fitzgerald, and others, but never returned, lofing his own life to fave his comrades. Evans returned back the fame night.-After leaving Sondago river, they came to a creek called Kuga, and then to Swartkops river, which is falt water, and from the top of the hills could fee the illands in the bay of Sondago river.-When Lewis was alone on a fand hill, gathering Hottentot figs, De Larfo having lain down to fleep under a bufh near him, he faw a man, whom he at first

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took for one of his companions; but, on feeing a gun on his fhoulder, immediately ran to him as faft as he could, which was not faft, his legs being much fwelled, and fell down at his feet for joy, and then went and called De Larfo, who fpoke Portuguefe. Their companions were below by a whale at the feafide, as they intended to stop three days here; but when they were called, this man, named John Potofe, carried them to the houfe of Chriftian Feroos, with whom he seemed to be a partner. They all remained there three days, and three days more at another houfe in the neighbourhood, belonging to Daniel Konig. Then five were fent to Landrofs van Swellendam, Robert Price remaining at the fecond houfe, near Swartkops river. From Landrofs van Swellendam, Warmington and Larey were fent to the Cape: Hynes remained at Landrofs, and Evans and De Larfo came back to Swartkops, with thirty or forty waggons and horfes, with tents, and about one hundred peo ple under captain Millar, who intended to go to the wreck in queft of more of the people who were faved. Evans and De Larfo went on with the party: they got within five days jour ney of the wreck, but came back, their horfes being tired; and the Mambookers oppofing them, they left their waggons at the river Nye, or cK-ly, which is a very large river, full of great ftones, and has a rapid ftream: it is near the Bamboe Berg, and is fresh water. In their journey from the wreck, they were obliged to go up it three days before they could crofs, on ac count of the great flones. The country is inhabited on both fides.

Robert Price remained near Swartkops 'till the waggons and people returned they were abfent from Swartkops at least a month, and had been within a day's journey of where they were robbed, but never got to the wreck, nor had feen any tokens of the ladies or captain, except that they faw in a Caffree house a great coat, which they thought was the captain's. In their journey they faw feveral dead bodies.-De Larfo came from the Cape in the fame fhip with Robert Price, (viz. the Laurwig, captain Stainbeck,) and is gone to Denmark. In the fame fhip came alfo William Hubberly, the fecond mate's fervant, and Francifco Feancon, who had remained with the Caf frees, and were brought from thence by the Hottentots, at the fame time with Lewis. Thefe are alfo gone to Denmark.

We have thus laid before our readers, in as full and circumftantial a manner as poffible, the various difficulties and miraculous efcapes of a part of this unfortunate company: it there fore only remains, for the fatisfaction of our readers, to make a

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