Journal of a voyage from Batavia in the Island of Java on board Bengal (121p., damaged), 30 March 1815-03 August 1815

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Details of: Other passengers and crew; weather; sighting flying fish; position; service read by Captain; death of crewman; gales 'ship lying over very much half the deck under water'; landing in Cape Town; visit to orange and lemon groves; bullock trains; price of bread; Table Mountains proved too steep to climb; St. Helena - learnt Bonaparte was on the throne of France and war between England and France; crossing the line; fired on by strange ships; take on Pilot - news of Battle of Waterloo; Dover.

Copy also: 'Dialogue for the year 2130' at front of volume.

Dialogue between Lord A and Sir James B., mention of shooting party composed of 'a chinese (a pleasant man), two South Americans, the Duke of Parramatta, the Australian Ambassador and a New Zealand man'.

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