They sung the "Watery Dangers," and the "Pomp of Deep Cerulean!" The sun shone glorious on the water while the procession advanced toward the land, under five hundred arches of ice, illuminated with coloured lights, and adorned in the most grotesque and fanciful style with sea-weed, elegant festoons, and shells of every kind; while a thousand water-spouts danced eternally before and after us, attracting the water from the sea in a kind of cone, and suddenly uniting with the most fantastical thunder and lightning.
Having landed our whole retinue, we immediately began to proceed toward the heart of Africa, but first thought it expedient to place a number of wheels under the ark for its greater facility of advancing.

We journeyed nearly due north for several days, and met with nothing remarkable except the astonishment of the savage natives to behold our equipage.
The Dutch Government at the Cape, to do them justice, gave us every possible assistance for the expedition.

I presume they had received instruction on that head from their High Mightinesses in Holland.
However, they presented us with a specimen of some of the most excellent of their Cape wine, and showed us every politeness in their power.

As to the face of the country, as we advanced, it appeared in many places capable of every cultivation, and of abundant fertility.

The natives and Hottentots of this part of Africa have been frequently described by travellers, and therefore it is not necessary to say any more about them.