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So they loaded the one [?shous] and bags of wheat on board
of our ship, and towed her out alongside of the [?J.L. Hall]
as she was bound to London. So when we got all the wheat
into her she commenced to get underweigh and the captain
found the Boatswain or leading seaman was not on board so our
boatswain shipped in the J.L. Hall bound to London and I took
his place on board of our ship. So we towed back to the wharf at
Pt Adelaide and discharged our coals then commenced to
load flour for capetown South Africa, and after loading flour
we made space on deck for fifty rams and four reaping mach-
ines the first reaping machines that arrived in South Africa
so we sailed and everything went well and arrived at
Capetown dock in eight weeks with the loss of only one of
those sheep that was in the year eighteen seventy three. So
we discharged our cargo and took in Ballast then took in
thirty three horses for the Island of Mauritius for sailing
hips in those days had to carry some strange cargos,. So
everything went well and arrived at Mauritius in seven-
teen days, then discharged our horses all in good order
and also our ballast and commenced to load sugar
for Sydney as there was no sugar grown in Australia in those days
SO we got loaded with sugar and sailed for Sydney and after
an uneventful passage to Sydney of seven weeks we arrived and
discharged our cargo of sugar, took in stone ballast and sailed
for Newcastle to load coals for Pt Adelaide. And arrived in
Port Adelaide in three weeks and discharged our coals and
commenced loading coals for algoa Bay or Port Elizabeth on
the east coast of Africa and after loading flour we sailed
for Algoa Bay East Africa and as there was no Harbour in
Port Elizabeth we had to lay out to an anchorage with two
anchors down and about fifty fathoms of cable chain on each
bow. And that passage from Pt Adelaide was just two and
a half months and Algoa Bay in those days was not a fit place
for a ship to lay in as it was open to the Indian Ocean. Anyhow
we discharged our cargo of flour into lighters and they landed
it through the surf on to the beach. Anyhow we was six weeks