Arrival at Cape Town and meeting with Father Corboy
Title
Arrival at Cape Town and meeting with Father Corboy
Subject
Diary page 8
Description
[seeing again a priest]
of God, we meet a tall young clergyman at top of ladder, greet him enthusiastically & soon learn that he is a real Irish gentleman - Rev. Father Corboy from the Diocese of Cashel – volunteered to go to the Cape for 8 years after ordination, tells us that he was just returning from Workhouse & Lunatic Asylum when he saw us & came up spend an hour with us, while talking to him W. Western E.C. brought us a little note from Dr Leonard promising to send a boat for us a 6 ½ a.m. You may imagine our delight. Fr Corboy reads it for us, bids us farewell – we watch him until we see his receding figure on the quay. Friday 23rd. Rise with the lark & are on deck at 5 ½ a.m. praising the Giver of all good for this bounty to us. Soon we see a barque approaching, manned by two dark gentlemen & a white man; steersman & above named gents help us in. Soon the little barque against the wind is cleaving her foamy track & coming to wharf we descry the venerable form of Most Rev Dr Leonard who frequently raises his hat & greets us most cordially – helps us all to land & conducts us to [three carriages]
of God, we meet a tall young clergyman at top of ladder, greet him enthusiastically & soon learn that he is a real Irish gentleman - Rev. Father Corboy from the Diocese of Cashel – volunteered to go to the Cape for 8 years after ordination, tells us that he was just returning from Workhouse & Lunatic Asylum when he saw us & came up spend an hour with us, while talking to him W. Western E.C. brought us a little note from Dr Leonard promising to send a boat for us a 6 ½ a.m. You may imagine our delight. Fr Corboy reads it for us, bids us farewell – we watch him until we see his receding figure on the quay. Friday 23rd. Rise with the lark & are on deck at 5 ½ a.m. praising the Giver of all good for this bounty to us. Soon we see a barque approaching, manned by two dark gentlemen & a white man; steersman & above named gents help us in. Soon the little barque against the wind is cleaving her foamy track & coming to wharf we descry the venerable form of Most Rev Dr Leonard who frequently raises his hat & greets us most cordially – helps us all to land & conducts us to [three carriages]
Creator
Sisters of Mercy
Source
Sisters of Mercy Archive, Ennis Collection
Publisher
Sisters of Mercy Archive
Date
1878
Contributor
Dunne, Joan
Rights
All rights reserved
Relation
Sisters of Mercy Ennis, Australia, New Zealand
Format
Manuscript
Language
eng
Type
image.jpg
Identifier
XE/358C8
Coverage
Australia, New Zealand
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