Here the _Spray_ suffered as much as she did anywhere, except off Cape Horn.

The thunder and lightning preceding this gale were very heavy.

From this point until the sloop arrived off the coast of Africa, she encountered a succession of gales of wind, which drove her about in many directions, but on the 17th of November she arrived at Port Natal.
This delightful place is the commercial center of the "Garden Colony," Durban itself, the city, being the continuation of a garden.

The signalman from the bluff station reported the _Spray_ fifteen miles off.

The wind was freshening, and when she was within eight miles he said: "The _Spray_ is shortening sail; the mainsail was reefed and set in ten minutes.