Letter to an unnamed sister Isabel Duncan in Mauritius. Reports safe arrival there on 22 February after long voyage; gives account of leak in water tank [see MS 2526/4] and other events on passage from Cardiff; mentions meeting Mrs. Ewan, wife of the captain of the Lochiel from Peterhead, which is also awaiting cargo there, and other friendson the island; now loading for Cape Town 13 - 16 March 1882