Exfract from a letter from Lady Sophia Raffles to Maryanne Flint

write you from Batavia he
promised to be back by the
18th & we are looking for him
every hour, being quite ready
to embark & anxious to get
round the Cape before the
Season us too far advanced-

I cannot tell you the
horror with which I think
of the voyage & the dread I
have of going to Sea again-
Such a Scene as that we
witnessed