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186 THE LAST NEWS OF THE. EMiaBAKTS.
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I > urban , _N _' atal , South Africa , Oct . 4 , 1862 . My I feel deak much Miss leasure Rye , in forwarding with sincere thanks _& xl
order on the London p and Westminster Ban you k , for the my sum of 11 Z . 61 , . of -which I shall be greatly obliged by your giving to Mr . for me . , I hope to be able in two months more to send to Miss the money which the
Dublin Society so kindly advanced to me . My sister and I are ( thank God ) Ago quite , at well . Maritzburg _ancWomfortabl ; she y _sjDoke situated very . kindl My sister y to her met , Miss and said B , she a hoped few day if s
she I am or I sorry should to ever say the want two a Misses friend we would are at app present ly to her lookingout . for situahard tions to ; one be got of them as there has been have so been for a nearl great y three months heavy ; failures they are within just now the
last few years , so that people are trying to curtail many their expenses as much as possible . I , am told business is still very dull . The chief advantage of the _colony seems to me to fee the fine healthy climate , though we have very
summer warm weather which , is and the very rainy frig season htful . thunder With grateful storms remembrances sometimes , but , I chiefl remain y in , ¦ dear Miss , Rye , Yours faithfull y
, William ' s TownVictoriaSept 241862 .
My dear Miss Rye , , . , You will be glad to , hear we have all arrived in safety with the Result , after a quick of sixty-nine days . We passed the mail steamer
on the very 26 th Augus passage t , at the Heads , and had an opportunity of sending . letters so fortunat , which e as were to have hurriedl a chance y written . , We as it had was a hardl very y p probable leasant run we from should Pl be y-
mouth or althoug during till h we we part never came of a near got day to the . tak Rations Cap e some e , wind abundant of fai the r and things , and no . calm excellen The except cabin t of for was the one always kind day ,
very dirty , owing to the stupidity of a conceited boy who acted the part of an experienced steward with very poor success . When nearly off the Cape encountered dreadful galwith heavy from the meets of the
we a e , very seas of ocean gales s , , and tempestuous after that weather , till we , got wind within and rain u the all Heads the way , " we . had The a Result succession must
I be would a fine not vessel like to to hav say e passed a word throug agains h t what the good it did shi without p that inj has ury broug , and ht I feel us through such troublous waters . Capt . Dickinson is a very prudent and
caushould tious commander times , too have much much so in more some sai peop l on le ' but s estimation we felt comfort , who thoug alw ht s we in many ; ay Into thinking the Bay all that on the could 27 th be August done for , but safe one ty of was my done sisters only went on We shore got ,
as and the we sea had was to wait roug till h and the the shi wind came high to ; another the ier of which my sisters it did was next very morn ill - , ing On getting p to the up Bay we had p good , news brought us by
one of the custom-house officers , that our brother , who has been in Western lie Australia could not for leave several even years for , a had day got to come an excellent down to appointment see us , but ; he had kept
on his house to be a home for us in the meantime to We commence have been a school looking in . about I went us to and Ballarat corresponding , a thriving about rising different town ei places ghty
there miles from which this I , sent as there to him seemed at the an same opening time there making . I had some a letter inquiries to a . banker Then I went , to see the place and , learn our j ) rospects ; and after waiting and
hearing about other places , we , —one sister and I , —have decided to open a
186 The Last News Of The. Emiabakts.
186 THE LAST NEWS OF THE . EMiaBAKTS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/42/
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