Warily the colonel picked up the South African newspaper, 'The Cape Government Gazette.' As always, the colonel checked the date, it was a recent edition and must have been brought over on a packet ship he thought. He looked down at the article Barrett indicated, as Dickie sat down smiling. The earlier rebuke from Andrew forgotten.

WRECK OF THE PRINCE RUPERT.

On the 4th September (1841), the Prince Rupert, from London, with one hundred and sixty passengers and cargo for ...