A VOYAGE TO SOUTH AMERICA AND THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

First Edition: 43 pages, modern blue cloth, a very good copy. 

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mouat_Keith) 

'George Mouat Keith (1764-1832 was an officer of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. He was of Scottish descent..... He was commissioned as a lieutenant on 12 August 1801, and was in command of HMS Boxer from 27 September 1804 to 5 June 1805, taking command of HMS Protector and remained with her until 8 March 1806. Keith was present at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806. While at the Cape, Keith and Protector captured a Dutch East Indiaman (the former James Sibbald, and her cargo of cochineal, ivory, indigo, etc., supposedly worth £300,000. 

‘HMS Protector (1805), was a 178-ton, 12-gun brig launched on 1 February 1805. Converted to a survey ship in 1817, she was sold for breaking up in 1833.’ 

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 807/8, 'The Protector sailed from Spithead with sealed orders on the 25th August 1805, and after visiting Madeira and the Brazils proceeded to the Cape, which was sighted on January 4, 1806, subsequently taking part in the naval attack, four days after which the country surrendered to the British forces. There is a description of Cape Town, and an account of the habits and occupations of the Hottentots. Of the Dutch inhabitants it is remarked that, "though stout and athletic, they have not all that phlegm about them which is characteristic of the Dutch in general: the ladies are lively, good-natured, familiar, and gay."'