...without intolerable storms and present danger to travellers who come near the same. This cape is the most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in...the whole circumference of the earth, and we passed it on the i8th of June." In 1586 Thomas Can dish equipped a small flotilla at his own expense, with...

...most dangerous Cape of the world, neuer without intollerable stormes and present danger to trauailers, which come neere the same. This Cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest Cape we sawe in the whole circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 18. of June. From thence we continued...

...Elizabethan seaman put on record in words it is difficult to avoid quoting, that this peninsula was ' a most stately thing and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth.' And old Sir Thomas Herbert* found ' the Prospect from the Table, a very noble view and pleasant.' But few...

...which he returned to England across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, " the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth." Completing his "renowned voyage, the second circumnavigation of the earth," in November,' 1580, he...

...of Cape Point has been recognized ever since Francis Drake, four centuries ago, proclaimed it "the most stately thing and the fairest Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth". A century before, in 1488, Bartholomew Dias rounded the Cape unwittingly, for he was blown past it,...

...round the world. It was on this occasion that the narrator recorded the well known observation that "This Cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest...Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth." In 1591 the first English ships to land at the Cape, under Capt. James Lancaster, put into Saldanha's...

...challenged traditional conceptions of the Cape in a revolutionary way. England's master sailor proclaimed it "a most stately thing, and the fairest Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth" (3:742).10 The "fair" Cape rescued many English sailors from the deathly grip of scurvy and other illnesses...

...idyllic. The sixteenth-century English explorer, Sir Francis Drake, circumnavigating the world pronounced: 'This cape is a most stately thing and the fairest...cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth.' That was almost a century before white settlement. Hundreds before pass laws, imprisonment without...

...Francis Drake evidently, on his jaunt on the Golden Hind in 1580, being moved to write in his journal of 'the fairest Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth'. The rugged profile of Table Mountain dominates everything in every direction as far as the eye can...

...introduction, contrasts with Sir Francis Drake's brief description of the delight he felt at the Cape: "This Cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest...Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth." :f A new entry in the 1598 edition chronicles the first contact between English sailors and the people...