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Rh Ah! how the crew praised God to see The welcome green of grass and tree; And, oh, how pleasant was the sight Of shady streets and houses white!

A boat was manned, and brought a score Or so of invalids ashore; With fever pale, with scurvy black, Or yellow with the Yellow Jack. Some went where by the old canal Stood Van der Stel's sick hospital; But one, of gentle birth and mien, Was by the lady's father seen, And lodged and nursed a month or so Within their house in Bromner's Row. (Old English travellers agree To praise Cape hospitality.) She nourished him with jellies fine, Custards and rich Constantia wine; And when he went to take the air, She used to walk beside his chair.

He told her stories of the East, Of savage man and savage beast; Of palms that waved o'er coral isles, And rivers full of crocodiles; Of marble tombs with gems inwrought, And sacrificial Juggernaut; Of jewelled Begums and Bashaws, Rodgers, Nabobs, and Sabberdaws; Of pirate Angria and the fray 'Twixt Great Mogul and Grand Sedey;

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