Excerpt from Records of the Cape Colony, Vol. 3: From December 1799 to May 1801, Copied for the Cape Government, From the Manuscript Documents in the Public Record Office, London Sir, - I take the opportunity of a Packet being ready to sail tomorrow for St. Helena to send this, for the chance of its being forwarded to England, just to announce to you our arrival at this Place on Monday last the 9th Instant. I have not yet seen Major General Dundas, as he is detained in the Country on Business, but I have found a Letter which he left for me, from whence I have reason to hope the Business he is upon will not detain him much longer, and as there will be another Opportunity of sending to England in about a Fortnight, and I shall by that time have been able to confer fully with him, I chuse to defer all other matters till that time, except mentioning the anxious and earnest manner in which he presses for the arrival of the Reinforcement of Troops so long promised, and I must beg leave to add my most earnest Representations to his on the Subject. As to everything else, I am happy to say I find all things as well as I could expect, and the Revenues I understand are gradually improving. But on this and all other matters I shall have an opportunity of touching fully in my next Dispatch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.