Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel: And Other Historical SketchesT. M. Miller, 1913 - 325 pages |
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Page 20 - ... found a piece of the shaft, including the part originally placed in the ground, altogether about six feet in length, propped up by means of large stones, crossed at the top by a broken fragment, which had originally formed the whole length of the shaft. This was six feet above ground, and twentyone inches beneath, composed of marble rounded on one side, but left square on the other, evidently for the inscription, which, however, the unsparing hand of Time, in a lapse of nearly three centuries...
Page 11 - Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.
Page 39 - Guinea; notwithstanding we ran hard aboard the cape, finding the report of the Portugals to be most false, who affirm that it is the most dangerous cape of the world, never without intolerable storms and present danger to travellers which come near the same. This cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 18.
Page 159 - Shillinge, who agreed with him that it was advisable to try to frustrate the project of the Hollanders. On the 25th the Dutch fleet sailed for Bantam, and the Lion left at the same time, but the Schiedam, from Delft, arrived and cast anchor. On the 1st of July the principal English officers, twenty-one in number, — among them the Arctic navigator William Baffin, — met in council, and resolved to proclaim the sovereignty of King James I over the whole country. They placed on record their reasons...
Page 36 - ... be seized by a stronger power without Christian nations feeling that a wrong was being done. Before recounting in brief the commencement of the Dutch conquests, a glance may be given to the acts of other nations, and especially to those of our own countrymen, in the eastern seas at an earlier date. The French were the first to follow the Portuguese round the Cape of Good Hope to India. As early as 1507 a corsair of that nation, named Mondragon, made his appearance in the Mozambique channel *...
Page 283 - ... or Draakberg Range and settle down in the Natal territory, south of those mountains ; but previous to their movement they put forth the following exposition of their sentiments : — Caledon, 14th August, 1837. Resolutions adopted by us, the undermentioned travellers and exiles, from the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, now on our journey between the Orange and Vet Rivers. We make known to our countrymen in advance, with what object and intentions we...
Page 39 - ... the same. This cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 18 of June.
Page 30 - Note, that in December of this year, 1488, there landed at Lisbon Bartholomeu Didacus [Dias], the commander of three caravels, whom the King of Portugal had sent to Guinea to seek out the land, and who reported that he had sailed 600 leagues beyond the furthest reached hitherto, that is, 450 leagues to the south and then 150 leagues to the north, as far as a cape named by him the Cape of Good Hope, which cape we judge to be in Agisimba, its latitude, as determined by the astrolabe, being 45° S.,...
Page 32 - Ilheo pouco mais de mea leguoa de terra que se chama ho penedo das fontes o qual nome lhe pos Bertholameu Dias que esta terra descobrio por mandado delRey Dom Joham que Deos tem por que achou aly duas fontes de muito boa augua doce & por outro nome se chama este penedo ho Ilheo da Cruz por que o mesmo Bertholameu Dias pos aly hum padram de pedra pouco mais alto que hum homem com huma...
Page 20 - ... advanced against it to the summit of the small granite eminence on which Diaz erected his cross in 1481, as a memento of his discovery of the place. This cross is said to have been standing forty years ago, but we found it thrown down, evidently by design, as that part of the shaft in a rough state which had originally been buried in the rock remained unbroken ; which never could have been the case, had it been turned over any otherwise than by having previously been lifted up from its foundation....