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Prester John

CHAPTER II
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Though I watched every night, I never found them again together.
At Cape Town Henriques went ashore and did not return.

The minister did not budge from the ship the three days we lay in port, and, indeed, it seemed to me that he kept his cabin.

At any rate I did not see his great figure on deck till we were tossing in the choppy seas round Cape Agulhas.

Sea-sickness again attacked me, and with short lulls during our stoppages at Port Elizabeth and East London, I lay wretchedly in my bunk till we sighted the bluffs of Durban harbour.
Here it was necessary for me to change my ship, for in the interests of economy I was going by sea to Delagoa Bay, and thence by the cheap railway journey into the Transvaal.

I sought out my cousin, who lived in a fine house on the Berea, and found a comfortable lodging for the three days of my stay there.


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