A NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE GROSVENOR

East Indiaman, which was unfortunately wrecked upon the Coast of Caffraria,somewhere between the 27th and 32nd degrees of Southern Latitude, on the 4th of August 1782,

Compiled from the examination of John Hynes, one of the unfortunate survivors.

By Mr. George Carter, historical portrait painter, upon his passage outward bound to India.

Containing a variety of matter respecting the sufferers, never before made public;

With copper plates descriptive of the catastrophe, engraved from Mr. Carter's designs.

First edition: [2] ,174 pages, frontispiece – shipwreck of the Grosvenor – clumsily folded, 3 plates, light foxing, marbled end papers, full mottled calf binding, titled gilt on the spine, a good copy.

SABIB vol 1 page 475: This copy contains 2 extra plates following page 46, A Caffre and Female Caffre, which are the same as those which appear in Le Vaillant’s Travels published by William lane in 1790.

The wreck of the Grosvenor, an East Indiaman, occurred on 4 August 1782 on the Pondoland coast of South Africa, north of the mouth of the Umzimvubu River. The shipwreck was close to the place where the Portuguese ship, São João, had gone down more than two centuries earlier on 8 June 1552. The Grosvenor was a three-masted ship of 729 tons on her return voyage to England when she was wrecked, carrying a crew of 132 and 18 passengers (12 adults and 6 children), and a cargo valued at £75,000. Of the 123 survivors, only 18 reached Cape Town and were repatriated, the remainder dying of their privations or joining with tribes. Four survivors, Robert Price, Thomas Lewis, John Warmington, and Barney Larey, eventually got back to England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_of_the_Grosvenor

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