05/07/1858 - 21/10/1858

The Hamburg barque Sophie has on board a rather varied and extensive cargo of general merchandise and European manufactures, together with a full complement of passengers, who are for the most part Prussians, and if a judgement can be formed from appearances they would seem to be well adapted to colonization, being generally healthy and cleanly. The vessel has made rather a long passage, the weather prior to reaching the parallel of the Cape of Good Hope being unfavourable; but since that time strong breezes from the west and north-west have predominated. The passengers have enjoyed good health on the passage, there having been only two cases of mortality - one, an adult female from consumption, and the second, an infant, which only lived a few hours after its birth. As usual with passenger vessels her draught of water is light, and as soon as the 12 feet signal was made the pilot in charge squared away for the bar. Register 22/10/1858