Dempster arrived safely in Durban and booked his passage to England.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
The Amatikulu was now nearly abreast of the lofty brush-clad headland known as The Bluff, which extends its protecting arm between the port of Durban and the full force of the south-westerly gales.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
Here were these unfortunate people sealed up in a square box, whose sole furniture consisted of a wooden bench let into each side, and thus, with nothing in the world to hold on to, literally shaken up as though in a cask rolling downhill, every frantic plunge of the vessel sending them tumbling over and over each other on the floor; many, too, in the wildest throes of sea-sickness; add to this the darkness, the horrible stifling atmosphere, the hoarse thunder of the great seas shivering the fabric, and the shrieks of the panic-stricken women, and it will be seen that the 'tweendecks of a tug-boat crossing the Durban bar might almost put Pandemonium itself to the blush.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford