# Letters from the Cape

Author: Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady, 1821-1869

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/886

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Letters+from+the+Cape+Duff+Gordon&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

WHEN I wrote last Sunday, we put our pilot on shore, and went down Channel. It soon came on to blow, and all night was squally and rough. Captain on deck all night. Monday, I went on deck at eight. Lovely weather, but the ship pitching as you never saw a ship pitch—bowsprit under water. By two o’clock a gale came on; all ordered below. Captain left dinner, and, about six, a sea struck us on the weather side, and washed a good many unconsidered trifles overboard, and stove in three windows on the poop; nurse and four children in fits; Mrs. T— and babies afloat, but good-humoured as usual. Army-surgeon and I picked up children and bullied nurse, and helped to bale cabin. Cuddy window stove...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/letters-from-the-cape-886/chapters/15/index.md)