...appearance, and Sir Francis Drake, who sighted it during his famous voyage round the world, described it as " a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth." Port Elizabeth, the " Liverpool of South Africa," the second seaport of the Colony, had, in 1904, a...

...most dangerous Cape of the world, neuer without intolerable stormes and present danger to trauailers, which come neere the same. This Cape is a most stately...circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 18. of lune. From thence we continued our course to Sierra Leona, on the coast of Guinea, were we arriued...

..."fasten their roots, and fills the entire valley to the " margin of the houses." SIR FRANCIS DRAKE: "This Cape is a most stately thing and the fairest...we saw in the whole circumference of the "earth." Mies CHARLOTTE MANSFIELD: " I hope at some future time to revisit Capetown, " so beautiful did I find...

...cape of the world, never without intolerable storms and present danger to travellers who come near the same. This cape is a most stately thing, and the...whole circumference of the earth, and we passed by it on the 18th of June." In 1583 four English traders in precious stones, acting partly on their own account...

...cape of the world, never without intolerable storms and present danger to travellers who come near the same. This cape is a most stately thing, and the...whole circumference of the earth, and we passed by it on the 18th of June." In 1588 four English traders in precious stones, acting partly on their own account...

...and present danger to travellers which come neai same.' Drake testified on the contrary that 'the Caj a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the w 1 See the voyage of Pyrard de Laval, edited for the Hakluyt S< by Mr. Albert Gray, 1887-90, vol....

...plaatsen in de nieuwere Engelse letterkunde is bij SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, die in 1 580 schreef: „The Cape is a most stately thing and the fairest Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth"1). JOHN MILTON gewaagt van de Kaap in zijn Paradise Lost II, 636 — 642 als volgt: „As whea...

...voyage round the world, was more favourable and more accurate. He declared the great headland to be ' a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth ' ; the belief, too, that it was always encompassed with intolerable storms was stated to be false....

...voyage round the world, was more favourable and more accurate. He declared the great headland to be ' a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth ' ; the belief, too, that it was always encompassed with intolerable storms was stated to be false....

...for more than fifty years. On the homeward track they passed the Cape of Good Hope, and you read, ' This Cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest...Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth. . . . We arrived in England,' so the record ends, ' the third of November, 1580, being the third yeere...