FREE ENTRY FOR EVERYONE SAILING THROUGH THE PAST: MYSTERY IN HISTORY The Mazeppa, owned by John Owen Smith, was based in Algoa Bay from 1837 to 1848, when she moved to Port Louis, Mauritius. In 1858, she was "sold abroad". In those 20 years she sailed all along the Southern African coast and across the Atlantic and Indian oceans and gave her name to Mazeppa Bay. She seems to have been built as a slaver in the U.S.A. in about 1830 and one of her mysteries is whether or not she continued in that trade in the African and Mauritian periods of her life. The lecture is being presented by Tony Voss, whi retired from the service of the University of Natal in 1995, after a career of teaching in the English departments of South African universities, including the Port Elizabeth branch of Rhodes. He maintains research interests in Shakespeare, South African literature and Mazeppa. He now lives in Sydney. He is also a research associate at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
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