| William Edward Garrett Fisher - 1896 - 308 pages
...desolate inlet of Angra Pequena, since made famous by the German annexation of Namaqualand, where " for the first time Christian men trod the soil of Africa south of the tropic." Still holding on his southward course, Diaz encountered heavy gales which blew him clean out of sight... | |
| William Edward Garrett Fisher - 1900 - 418 pages
...the desolate inlet of Angra Pequena, since made famous by the German annexation of Namaqualand, where "for the first time Christian men trod the soil of Africa south of the tropic." Still holding on his southward course, Diaz encountered heavy gales which blew him clean out of sight... | |
| George McCall Theal - 1907 - 544 pages
...be 24° S., but in reality it was 26|°, so imperfect were the means then known for determining it. There he cast anchor, and for the first time Christian men trod the soil of Africa south of the tropic. A more desolate place than that on which the weary seamen landed could hardly be, and no mention is... | |
| George McCall Theal - 1913 - 344 pages
...24° south, but in reality it was 26£°, so imperfect were the means then known for determining it. There he cast anchor, and for the first time Christian men trod the soil of Africa south of the tropic. A more desolate place than that on which the weary seamen landed could hardly be, and no mention is... | |
| George McCall Theal - 1913 - 344 pages
...24° south, but in reality it was 26J°, so imperfect were the means then known for determining it. There he cast anchor, and for the first time Christian men trod the soil of Africa south of the tropic. A more desolate place than that on which the weary seamen landed could hardly be, and no mention is... | |
| Albert Frederick Calvert - 1916 - 462 pages
...1486. Sailing southward, and c passing along a barren shore, covered the greater part of the time by a thick haze, Dias came to an inlet or small gulf,...Christian men trod the soil of Africa south of the tropic of Capricorn. To this inlet he gave the name of Angra Pequena, or small bay, and by this name it was... | |
| Albert Frederick Calvert - 1916 - 334 pages
...southward, and passing along a barren shore, covered the greater part of the time by a thick haze, Bias came to an inlet or small gulf, with a group of islets...Christian men trod the soil of Africa south of the tropic of Capricorn. To this inlet he gave the name of Angra Pequena, or small bay, and by this name it was... | |
| Edwin William Smith - 1925 - 266 pages
...shortly before doubling the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, it was, so far as is known, the first time that Christian men trod the soil of Africa south of the Tropic. The Portuguese never made any permanent settlement at the Cape. They, and the Dutch who followed, had no... | |
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