Letters from the Cape by Lady Duff Gordon

Transcribed from the 1921 edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk. Second proof by Margaret Price. LETTERS FROM THE CAPE LETTER I–THE VOYAGE Wednesday, 24th July. Off the Scilly Isles, 6 P.M. When I wrote last Sunday, we put our pilot on shore, and went down Channel. It soon came on to blow, and all night