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The Portuguese in South Africa: With a Description of the Native Races ... - Page 195
by George McCall Theal - 1896 - 332 pages
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Voyages of the Elizabethan seamen to America, 13 narratives from the ...

Richard Hakluyt - 1893 - 344 pages
...coast of 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...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...
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Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America: Select Narratives ..., Volume 1

Richard Hakluyt - 1893 - 350 pages
...coast of 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 158°] Cape of Good Hope. 229 storms and present danger to travellers which come near the same. This...
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A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Volume 4

Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1897 - 600 pages
...weather. He did not land, Drake. but 'ran hard aboard the Cape, finding the report of the Portugals to be most false, who affirm that it is the most dangerous...intolerable storms and present danger to travellers which come near the same.' Drake testified on the contrary that ' the Cape is a most stately thing,...
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Impressions of South Africa

James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1897 - 644 pages
...ran hard aboard the Cape, finding the report of the Portuguese to be most false, who affirm that it b the most dangerous cape of the world, never without...the same. This cape is a most stately thing, and the finest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth." A third excursion, which well repays the...
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Impressions of South Africa

James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1900 - 588 pages
...coming home westward from his ever-famous voyage round the world, had a more auspicious experience: " We ran hard aboard the Cape, finding the report of...the same. This cape is a most stately thing, and the finest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth." A third excursion, which well repays the...
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Leading Documents of English History: Together with Illustrative Material ...

Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 642 pages
...with it, or any other land, until we came to Sierra Leone, upon the cost of Guinea; notwithstanding we ran hard aboard the Cape, finding the report of...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...
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Source-book of English History: Leading Documents, Together with ...

Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 650 pages
...with it, or any other land, until we came to Sierra Leone, upon the coast of Guinea; notwithstanding we ran hard aboard the Cape, finding the report of...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...
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Impressions of South Africa

James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1900 - 598 pages
...coming home westward from his ever-famous voyage round the world, had a more auspicious experience : " We ran hard aboard the Cape, finding the report of...never without intolerable storms and present danger to travelers who come near the same. This cape is a most stately thing, and the finest cape we saw in...
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Travellers and Explorers

1903 - 636 pages
...the coast of 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...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...
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of ..., Volume 11

Richard Hakluyt - 1904 - 504 pages
...notwithstanding we ranne hard aboord the Cape, finding the report of the Portugals to be most false, who affirme, that it is the most dangerous Cape of the world, never without intolerable stormes and present danger to travailers, which come neere the same. This Cape is a most stately thing,...
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