Letter from Aldin Grout and Charlotte Bailey to James and Elizabeth Bailey

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Grout, Aldin Grout, Charlotte Bailey Bailey, Elizabeth Bailey, James

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Ocean voyage to South Africa. "Dingaan's power is, we hear, very much broken, and we hear has been driven from his country, and that the Boers have issued a proclaimation, taking in to the territory they call their own, about half the country occupied by the Zulus including both Dingans residence and Givani the station occupied by by. Champion & myself..." Sickness spreading in Natal, brought in by slaves from a captured slave ship from the east coast.

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