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on which the natives made a noife, as if in triumph.

They fufpected the honefty of this Malay, as he pointed out to the natives the fituation of their pockets. In the journal of the Doddington, a boy about eleven or twelve years of age is mentioned, who lived among the Caffrees. The crew then fufpected him to be an European.

The captain had a ftick with a bayonet on it, which the natives fnatched away out of his hand, but the Malayman perfuaded them to give it back: the natives, with whom the Malay was, came and cut off their buttons.

The natives always left them at night; they have but one fhoe, made of buffaloe hide, which they wear on the right foot, it has no top leather, except over the toe, and is tied round the ancle with two ftrings from the heel. The Dutchman, with whom he afterwards remained, told him they make great fprings when they go a hunting. They are fometimes out for three or four days from their huts; they feed their dogs with what they catch, and only bring home a little on their knob fticks.

Auguft 10 or 11. The captain afcended a very high hill, and took a lance from one of the natives, whom he met. In vain did he by figns and intreaties endeavour to get it returned. He went away, and foon returned with a large party from his village, who were armed with lances and targets. The ladies, and those who were incapable of fharing in the action, were placed with the baggage, on a rifing ground, while the captain and the remainder attacked the natives, and drove them out of the village.

The weapons ufed by the natives were targets made of hides to cover themfelves, fo that when our people threw ftones at them they could never hit them; they had reddish fticks, feemingly dyed, with a wooden knob at the end, and lances; but not chocfing to loofe the iron of the lance, they drew out the lance-flaffs and fharpened the end, and threw thefe ftaff at them, and Aruck one of the company in the ear. He was funned, and fell down,

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One of them fell down as he was running away. The boatfwain and others overtook him, and bruised him terribly, but the captain told them not to kill any.

The natives afterwards brought fome fweet potatoes to exchange for the lance-ftaffs and flicks they had thrown at our people.

They fat down peaceably, and the captain gave them fome toys, with which they went away. After ftopping about two hours our people proceeded. The natives did not moleft them, but let them go on.

After this fcuffle they never opposed the natives, but let them take what they pleafed.

After they had proceeded about three or four miles farther, in the evening the Malay came up with them. He laughed at the, difpute which had happened. They afked which was the right road? He faid that which he was going. He had been at the wreck, where he got a load of iron, and had on a long gown of the captain's, which he had found there.

After the Malay left them, they marched on, and met fome other natives, with whom they exchanged but, tons for fweet potatoes. After travelling a little way, it began to rain. They made a fire of grafs and tufts, as there were no bufhes nigh; and after reling a little, went on, and took up their lodgings for the night at fome bufhes on the top of a hill, under a bank. A fiream of fresh water ran in the hollow beneath.

August 11 or 12. They reached the village in which the Malayman lived. His houfe was near the fea-fide: he brought his child to them, and begged a picce of pork from the captain, who gave him a little bit, though at the fame time he told him of his distress.

This Malayman examined their buttons, and cried out Zimbe, which fignifies copper. Captain Coxon now or dered the feamen not to give any thing to the natives, or to hold any parley

with

In many places I quote the words of the printed account, but have not marked the paffages, to have the appearance of one narration.

with them. By this judicious regulation, they hoped to reprefs their avarice, and prevent examination.

When they left the Malayman's village, the natives followed, and threw ftones. The failors defired to proceed, in hopes they would not continue the purfuit. About noon, they came to a creek, which they paffed at low water. They went on till evening, when they found water by the fide of a hill. Here the Caffrees furrounded them, and wanted to take their buttons. They attempted to fearch the ladies. Some of them kept on the hill, threatening to throw down great ftones upon them. The failors advifed the captain to go on, and not to fit ftill, and let all their things be taken from them, but as the furgeon was taken fick, he would not move. Some of the people fet off without him.

The Lafcars went first away, and the natives followed them, and robbed them.

After leaving the captain, they faw a party at a diftance coming over a hill. That night they came to a falt water river, and gathered wood to make a fire: they could not ftrike a light, but feeing a light on the other fide of the river, one of the Lafcars fwam over, and lighted a tick at a Caffree hut, where he faw no people: he fwam back over the river with the ftick, and lighted a fire. Colonel James and Mrs. James then came up to them. As they had no water, Colonel James advifed them to dig in the fand. They dug, and with fuccefs. The fame night the captain and ladies came up, and by next morning they all joined again, except one Baltiano Nardeen, a big man, and unable to walk, who had dropped behind.

In their march they found a tree which bore a fweet berry, with a fmall hard ftone. They eat the fruit, but they found it bound them very much. This berry grows upon the branches, and is about the fize of a pea. When ripe it is black, and before it is ripe,

red.

In the morning the ladies waded over the river, breaft high, being fupported by the failors, who carried over

the children; this was the first river fince they left the fhip; it was fmall, and after they got up the hill on the other fide they faw it almoft dry, by the ebbing of the tide.

They had now left the wreck about a week; and when they had croffed the river, the Lafears and one of the paffenger's black maid left them. Sɔme of the men then went on, in ftraggling parties, and left the captain and the ladies behind. This happened about ten days after the fhip was loft.

Captain Coxon had kept his health, but his fpirits were quite dejected when they parted. The rest of the company from this time heard no more of hini, or the ladies. To the latter the natives offered no violence, but took away their rings and trinkets.

The following is a lift of the per fons who were left with Capt. Coxon: Mr. Logie, chief mate; Mr. Beale, third mate; Mr. Harris, fifth mate; Mr. Haye, purfer; Mr. Nixon, furgeon; Robert Rea, boatfwain; John Hunter, gunner; Wm. Mixon, quarter-mafter; George M'Daniel, carpenter's firft mate; James Mauleverer, zd ditto; John Edkins, caulker; William Stevens, butcher; Frank Mafoon, Dom. Kircanio, Jof. Andrée, Matthew Bell, Roque l'andolpho, John Stevens, John Pope, feamen; Jof. Thomfon, chief mate's fervant; James Vandefteen, boatfwain's ditto; John Hill, gunner's ditto; Ant. Da Cruza, captain's cook; Patrick Fitzgerald, John Hudson, difcharged foldiers from Madrafs.

Paffengers left with Captain Coxon: Col. James, Mrs. James, Mr. Hofea, Mrs. Hofea, Mrs. Logie, Mr. Newman, Capt. Walterhoufe Adair.-Mifs Dennis, Mifs Wilmot, Mifs Hofea, Mafler Saunders, Mafter Chambers, children.- -Black fervants: George Sims, Mr. Newinan's; Reynel, Maiter Law's; Dow, Mr. Hofea's; Betty, Mrs. Logie's, fince arrived at the Cape, fays her miftrefs fent her away; Sally, Mrs. James's; Mary, Mifs Dennis's; Hoakim, Mrs. Hofea's.-M. Plaideaux de Lifle, a French officer; J. Roffeau, fervant to Col. D'Efpinette, who went inland the fame day, or the day after they left the captain.

On the day in which the captain and his party ftayed behind, they met with the Lafcars in a small wood.

Auguft 16*. They came to the mouth of a river. Here three of their comrades were too much fatigued to proceed, and they again parted with the Lafcars. They marched along the fteep and hilly banks of this river for three days, and then croffed. Colonel D'Efpinette then left them, and about the 19th of Auguft Colonel Talbot declared he could proceed no farther. They were both too weary to fuftain the fatigues of travelling any longer.

August 24. About eight or ten days after they had left the captain, as they were forty-five in number, they agreed to divide, in order to enable themfelves to procure provifions with lefs difficulty.

The firft party confifted of twentythree perfons, though the four furvivors could only give twenty-two names: Robert Price, captain's fervant, then not much above thirteen years of age; Barney Larey, landfman, both now in England; Wm. Thompfon, midshipman, dead (Feancon told T L.); Thomas Page, carpenter, dead and buried. TL. W. and L. P. Henry Lillburne, fhip's fteward, left behind after paffing Great Visch river; Mafter Law, child of five or fix years old, died 4th Nov. James Thomfon, quarter-matter, left about eight or ten days after entering fecond inhabited country; Thomas Simmonds, ditto, dead (Schultz told W.) Robert Auld, cooper, dead and buried in the fandy country; George Reed, armourer, went back from Sondag's river to look for Mr. Lillburne, &c. George Creighton, caulker's mate, left at Great Vifch river; Wm. Couch, captain's fteward, dead and buried at Sondag's river, P. W. and L. Lau. Jonefqua, boatfwain's yeoman, dead (at river Nye [or 'K-ly] Feancon told T L.)-Seamen: Francifco de Larfo, gone to Copenhagen in the Laurwig; Jeremiah Evans, left at Cape; Lau. M'Ewen, left in firft uninhabited country near the inhabited country. 1. Edw. Monck, left about four days af

ter coming into fecond inhabited country. L. John Squires, left at Great Vifch river; All. Schultz, dead (found by W.) Tho. Parker, Patrick Burne, both dead (Feancon told T L.) Ifaac (Blair) left at Great Visch river.

The other party confifted of twentytwo perfonst, viz. John Warmington, boatfwain's fecond mate, Thomas Lewis, feaman, both now in England; Mr. Shaw, fecond mate, left at a river in firft uninhabited country. Hubberly told TL. first who died; Mr. Trotter, fourth mate, left by Hubberly at the river where Mr. Williams was killed; Mr. Williams, paffenger, dead. Hubberly told T L. that he was driven into a river and killed by the Caffrees; Mr. Taylor, paffenger, dead (Hubberly toid TL. that he would not eat after Mr. Williams's death, and died two days after); John Suffman, fervant to Mr. Williams, dead. Hubberly told T L. he was left by Warmington at a river in firt uninhabited country; William Hubberly, fervant to Mr. Shaw, gone to Copenhagen.-Difcharged foldiers: Wm. Ellis, fervant to Col. James, left at fame river as Mr. Shaw, Edward Croaker, left at third river to eastward of Great Vifch river (which is a large river at high-water); James Stockdale, left at fame river as Mr. Shaw. - Seamen: John Hynes, gone to Copenhagen: Will. Fruel, Charles Berry, James Simpfon, left in fandy country before they came to Sondag's river; R. Fitzgerald, dead; Jacob Angel, left at fame river with Mr. Shaw; John Plain, dead (T L. found him dead in a hut); John Howes, left at fame river with Mr. Shaw (Hebberly told T L. he was fecond who died about three days after Shaw); John Brown, left at a river.

Mafter Law was firft carried by William Thompfon, midihipman, and then by each of the party in company by turns; and when they were tired out, Mr. Lillburne faid, he would fave the boy's life, or lofe his own.

The first party continued on the fea coaft, the natives ftill about them, but dropping off by degrees. They regarded nothing but metal. One of

the

* The four furvivors who reached England were not very certain of the days of the month, after they left the captain. In the enumeration Jey make only twenty.

the Caffrees took a watch and broke it with a ftone, to pick the pieces out with his lance. Thefe he fuck into his hair. They were then on the banks of the river Nye, or Kly.

They then met a middle-aged black Portuguese, in a houfe by a falt water river near the fea. He had two Caffree women with him. His houfe ftood fingle, but there was a Caffree village of five huts near it. The Portuguefe had no cows, but he gave them three fih, which he cooked for them; as he did the fhel! fifh which they had picked up, and fome white roots like potatoes. This was about three days after they had entered the fecond inhabited country.

The other party went inland, and were three days out of fight of the fea, and four without meeting any inhabitants, though they were near fome old huts, and feeing feveral wild beafls, elephants, tygers, &c. When they were diftreffed for provifions, they returned to the coaft. Here they fed on fhell fish, and on a dead whale, of which they faw three or four. They could not eat of the first or fecond, for want of a knife. They afterwards, though with difficulty, cut it with a fpike nail, till Warmington found a knife in a boat upfet on the fhere.

In about three weeks or a morth after they had parted with the captain and the ladies, they came into a fandy country. They were now feparated into fmall parties.

The party in which Thomas Lewis was, confifted of about e'even perfons; Hubberly told him Mr. Shaw was the first who died, and in about three days after, John Howes followed. Lewis proceeded alone, and came up with the carpenter and others, near a deep narrow river. At the end of forty-nine days after they had left the fhip, according to the carpenter's account, Capt. Talbot's fervant Ifaac, who had been his coxfwain, and Patrick Born ftopped at the river; he fwam Lack and told them to make a cattamaran, and he would fwim it over, which he did, and brought them acrofs.

Lewis afterwards came to another

river, where he joined feveral of the company. 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 that they should return to the natives. Brown was not able to ftir, but he and the other two went back till they came to the river where he had met the carpenter; then his companions would not proceed. He fwam acrofs at low water; and on next morning faw two of the natives on the fea fide; they feemed travelling. They looked at him, and made figns for him to join them; but the road which they took led from the Cape of Good Hope. On the fame afternoon he faw three girls on the fhore, they took him home about a mile and an half from the coal, where there were about fix huts together; the men were broiling meat; they all came round him; he made figns for fomething to cat; they gave him a little milk, but took fome mufcles which he had picked up from him, and then drove hin away with ftones. He went to another krawl, or village, about a quarter of a mile diftant, and they gave him fome milk. Here he flayed all night under the trees, and next morning went to another krawl. After which he returned to the former, where he found Francifco Feancon and S. Paro, who had walked through the country, and not along the coaft. After a fhort ftay here, he went to ancther krawl, and ftayed with the Caffrees three months. During this time he took care of their calves, and thered their wood.

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When Lewis had been about three weeks with the Caffrees, William Hubberly, Mr. Shaw's fervant, came to the fame place. He told him all his companions were dead: that Mr. Williams had been driven into a river, and killed by the natives, who threw ftones at him; and that Mr. Taylor could not eat, and died in two days.

About fixteen or eighteen days after Hubberly came, Fearon and Paro left the huts: after a month's abfence Feancon returned, and told him that Paro, Thompfon the midshipman, Parker, and

Qu. James Simpfon

Burne

Burne were dead. Feancon and Paro had come within three days journey of the Dutch farms, when they returned. They lived nine days in the defert without water, after which Paro died. The Hottentots who were fent from the Dutch Farms Swartkops, brought them through the country, on the 15th of January, 1783. This was ten or eleven days after they left the krawl. At Sondag's River, he met the waggons going towards the wreck, with Jeremiah Evans and Francifco De Larfo. They wanted Lewis to return with them, but he declined it, as he had fuffered fo much already. He ftayed at Kat Skypper's houfe at Swartkops two months.

Thofe who had travelled along the coaft were not far off, and Price, the boy, lived with a Daniel Konig, a Hanoverian, in the neighbourhood.

The Dutch, who are fettled near the Cape, are great enemies to the Caffices, as they carry off their cattle, and are continually committing depredations.

The Governor of the Cape, when he was informed of the wreck, fent out a party to fearch for the ftragglers, and King or Konig, for his name is fpelled differently, went himfelf, and carried prefents for the Caffrees.

One of the parties, when they arrived at the fandy corntry confifted only of eight. They travelled three weeks, in which time their company was reduced to four, Warmington, Fruel, Fitzgerald, and Hynes. They came to a falt river, which was fo deep, that they could not wade. They had over taken Lillburne, Mafter Law, Auld, and Evans, and were joined there by feven others, among whom was Price, who was one of the four who reached England.

The following is the account which this boy gave of the misfortunes which attended his party. There have been few alterations made in the language, and those principally, in order to preferve the connection:

"Some of the natives whom they met on the fea-fide put a lance and knobby tick 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 Couch, who was his comrade, as they had helped each other fince the wreck, and the others alfo fell a-crying, whereupon the natives let him go: this was in the Second inhabited country after leaving the Portuguefe. He thinks thefe were the last Caffrees they saw.

"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 could only travel at low water, where the fea 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 país at low water; but luckily they came to it at low-water.

At this rocky place they faw fome pieces of wood with nails in it, and afterwards a Dutch boat on the fhore. Warmington, who followed, found a knife in this boat; and they faw on the fhore an old rotten mail; and not long after they paffed Great Vich river, they faw a fmall old topgallant mast in a fresh water creek.

"He learned the name of that river, and of the others afterwards, from De Larfo who returned with the Dutch party.

"A little before they came to Great Vich river, which was in fight from a rifing ground, they paffed a little gulley, where they were called to by Paddy Burne; Mr. Lillburne, Thomas Lewis, and Squires were there; the carpenter then died and was buried at that place.

"Great Vifch 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 cddy tide in fwimming acrofs. 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, twisted together; they waded, and guided the cattamarans round the fand banks, till they came to the narrow deep part: he, Larey, and the ar mourer were left behind the first day,

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