Hello again, Paxie,   Your man might still have gone on the ARAB I mentioned, but not on the voyage I mentioned because that one arrived Capetown 18 February, 1895. ARAB arrived back in Southampton on 29 April, 1895 and left again 1 June, 1895 arriving again at Capetown on 23 June, 1895.   However, it sounds rather as if he were passenger, not crew and our focus is ships and crews. The Ships List at Rootsweb: http://www.theshipslist.com/ does passengers and emigration.   Regards, Adi --- On Sat, 7/9/11, Paxie Kelsey <paxie@telkomsa.net> wrote: Hello Rhonda and Ron Many thanks for your input ... for a moment I thought I had lost my document with what SW Smith said in his letter dated Aug 13th 1895. He says he came on the "Arab" some two months ago ...  so I would say that was about May or early June ..... He states something which I cannot quite read and maybe it's of note here ... "I notice in the gazette that you are advertising for one SW Smith of Egypt & "....... " maybe Luclia .... Anyway .. .perhaps you know more about which "Arab" I am looking for now. Kind regards Paxie