Dear Periwinkle,—Since that memorable, not to say miserable, day, when you and I parted at Saint Katherine’s Docks, (see note 1), with the rain streaming from our respective noses
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Dear Periwinkle,—Since that memorable, not to say miserable, day, when you and I parted at Saint Katherine’s Docks, (see note 1), with the rain streaming from our respective noses—rendering tears superfluous, if not impossible—and the noise of preparation for departure damaging the fervour of our “farewell”—since that day, I have ploughed with my “adventurous keel” upwards of six thousand miles of the “main,” and now write to you from the wild Karroo of Southern Africa.
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- Letter 1. “A Life on the Ocean Wave.”
- Letter 2. Hunting Springboks on the Karroo.
- Letter 3. Somerset—The British Settlers—Original “Owners”—Native Church-Going.
- Letter 4. Adventures with Ostriches.
- Letter 5. More about Ostriches
- Letter 6. Over the Plains
- Letter 7. Lion-Hunting, etcetera, in the Early Days—Bushmen and their Troubles.
- Letter 8. Rain! Rain! Rain!
- Letter 9. Crossing the Great Fish River