"You have proved a very useful hand on the way out, which is more than most do who work their passage.

Nine out of ten of them are not worth their salt, to say nothing of the rest of their rations.

You can stay on shore tonight, if you like; but you must come off early in the morning.
We hope to get away in good time." On landing, Reuben was much struck with the variety of the scene.
In the streets of Cape Town were men of many types.

Here was the English merchant and man of business, looking and dressing just as he would at home.

Names over the shop doors were for the most part Dutch, as was the appearance of the majority of the white men in the streets.