Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa

Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa

I dedicate this Tale to you for two reasons: first, because it is, in some sort, a souvenir of a very interesting visit to South Africa, rendered pleasant by the kind hospitality shown us by so many in Grahamstown, and by no one more than yourself. Secondly and chiefly, because it gives me the opportunity of expressing publicly to you my sympathy in the noble work you are carrying on, under the gravest difficultiesdifficulties which (I am persuaded) many would help to lighten, who possess the means of doing so, were they but acquainted with them. It was the afternoon of a day late in the November of the year 1805. His Majestys ship Hooghly, carrying Government despatches and stores, as well as a few civil and military officers of the East India Companys service, was running easily before the trade wind, which it had caught within two days sail of Madeiraand was nearing the region of the tropics. The weather, which had been cold and stormy, when the passengers left England some weeks before, had been gradually growing bright and genial; until for the last three or four days all recollections of fog and chill had vanished from their minds. The sky was one vast dome of the richest blue, unbroken by a single cloud, only growing somewhat paler of hue as it approached the horizon line. The sea stretched out into the distanceto the east, an endless succession of purple wavelets, tipped here and there with white; to the west, where the sun was slowly sinking in all its tropical glory, one seething mass of molten silver. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 33304
Author: Adams, H. C. (Henry Cadwallader)
Release Date: Jul 31, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English