In the Land of the Tui Author:Robert Wilson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. " THE GLOWS AND GLORIES OF THE BROAD BELT " Unto the farthest flood-brim look with me ; Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd. ... more »Miles and miles distant though the last line be, And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond, — Still, leagues beyond those leagues there is more sea." Dante Gabriel Rossetti. August 17. Leaving Africa. — "Rolling down to the Cape " is a short, graphic, and true description of this voyage ; the worst part of it being reserved for the day before entering Table Bay. Here the cross currents are so numerous that no exact system of rolling is maintained ; a kind of corkscrew motion prevails, upon which dependence cannot be placed, for no sooner have the bewildered passengers become accustomed to one form of this upsetting entertainment, than it is forthwith changed to another, which completely overthrows both equilibrium and dignity, and performs the strangest antics with the unmanageable limbs of its victims. Table Mountain at length loomed up before us, happily uncovering his square and flattened head, so that we could appreciate his noble proportions. The first view of Cape Town affected me strangely. There seems something so curious in a settlement of men and women right on the world's edge. It is as if those early pioneers had stood for a space to gaze on the pathless waste of water, which was to them less formidable and unknown than the untracked wildernesses of this great land of promise, that would draw them later by the strength of its vastness, and the longing there is in human souls to penetrate an immense Silence, and to reach the Ever-beyond. Africa! The very name is one by which to conjure. How perfectly inadequate to satisfy our desires were the few hours we spent on the threshold of this...« less