...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....

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...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...

...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...

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...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...