Shipwreck story unearthed at National Library

The Sunday Times (13/11/2011) reports on the discovery of  a rare book at the National Library of South Africa (Cape Town campus).   The book, in French, was written about 200 years ago, by Charles Etienne-Boniface, in which he tells of the sinking of the merchant ship, the Eole, near Butterworth on the Wild Coast in April 1829.       British academic, Dr David Culpin, came across the book while researching the collection of Sir George Grey, governor of the Cape Colony between 1854 and 1861.    Only nine copies of the book are known to exist.