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Cape Talk, Tuesday afternoon
“Went to a nearby farm, they borrowed some horses, they rode to Darling, and then with a cart pulled by six horses, they dashed to Cape Town to tell everybody of the news of this stranding of the vessel.”
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Went to a nearby farm, they borrowed some horses, they rode to Darling, and then with a cart pulled by six horses, they dashed to Cape Town to tell everybody of the news of this stranding of the vessel. And a coaster was sent up to Dassen Island to rescue the people, and they were fed boiled penguin eggs and dry bread by Portuguese chaps who were busy harvesting guana and penguin eggs, rather different to the fare that they might.
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