Later, however, he was allowed to come on deck, where he found they had rigged a screen (perhaps an awning) under which he walked, looking at "the newly-formed settlement," and admiring a big house "where he was sure the governor lived." From Australia, they sailed some time, and reached an anchorage where a consul-general came on board, and where Laupepa was only allowed on deck at night.

He could then see the lights of a town with wharves; he supposes Cape Town.

Off the Cameroons they anchored or lay-to, far at sea, and sent a boat ashore to see (he supposes) that there was no British man-of-war.

It was the next morning before the boat returned, when the _Albatross_ stood in and came to anchor near another German ship.

Here Alualu came to him on deck and told him this was the place.