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An Accurate and Truly Interesting Description of those Delightful Regions Situated Five Hundred Miles North of the Cape.First edition thus. 8vo. Recent half calf, gilt, extremities rubbed. xvi, 144pp. London, Edwards and Knibb, Originally published in 1798 under the title Narrative of the Loss of the Ship Hercules, commanded by Captain Benjamin Stout &c, &c. The work recounts the overland journey overland from the coast (between the Keiskama and Beka rivers) to Capetown. Both Theal and Mendelssohn take issue with the work's title. Mendelssohn, pp445-6; Theal, p288.