Excerpt from A Cruise in the "Gorgon" The Cape Station, whose command passed from Rear Admiral Keppel to rear-admiral Walker while the Gorgon was at the Cape (p. Had varied boundaries during the nineteenth century, but at that time it reached up the east coast of Africa to the equator. It thus extended beyond Zanzibar and along the Somali coast, and included the area of the slave trade which the Royal Navy was at that time endeavouring to combat. 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.