Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel: And Other Historical SketchesT. M. Miller, 1913 - 325 pages |
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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 37 - 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 157 - 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 30 - Guinea to seek out the land, and who reported that he had sailed 600 leagues beyond the farthest 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., and its distance from Lisbon 3100 leagues. This voyage he [Dias] had depicted and described from league to league upon a chart, so that he might show it to the king...
Page 34 - ... 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 - We purpose to establish our settlement on the same principles of liberty as those adopted by the United States of America, carrying into effect, as far as practicable, our burgher laws.
Page 281 - ... 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 29 - Portuguese, and reads as follows : ' In the year 6681 of the World, and in that of 1482 since the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, the most serene, most excellent and potent prince, King D. Joao II. of Portugal did order (mandou) this land to be discovered and these padroes to be set up by D° Cao, an esquire (escudeiro) of his household.
Page 282 - ... undertaken our journey, and that our unanimous wish is — 1 . To select the country called the Bay of Port Natal as our sea port. 2. To inspect the extent of country joining the same, inland, as far as we shall deem it necessary. 3. That we have placed ourselves under certain chiefs, as Field Commandants, as protecting leaders over us, to investigate and redress all grievances, that may take place on our journey. 4. We place our dependence on the All-wise...
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.,...