CHAPTER XII.

West to Clanwilliam--Mr. Shaw--Productions of farm--Back to the Cape--Open an hotel--Pleasures of Cape life--Ships put in for Australia--Imports--Market day--Arrangements--Waggons--Fish--Lobsters--Off to Port Elizabeth--Whale fishing--Sea elephants--Manner of killing--The Penguin--Habits of the bird--Back to the Cape--English Church at Newlands--The Bay--Wreck of a Baltimore vessel--Loss of two children, captain's wife, and the mate--Habits of Hottentots--Manner of living--A marriage--A present and its return--Loss in business by partner absconding--Leave the Cape--East India docks--Buckinghamshire--Relatives at home--Station master--Accident detailed--Near Rugby--Exonerated and promoted--Liverpool--Brighton--To Canada--Farewell address 175

TEN YEARS IN INDIA.