| Rebecca Stefoff - 1990 - 146 pages
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| Michael Fraser - 1994 - 204 pages
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| Leeds Barroll - 1998 - 440 pages
...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... | |
| Larry Schwartz - 2000 - 300 pages
...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... | |
| Prudence Smith - 2000 - 356 pages
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| Gavin Bell - 2000 - 330 pages
...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... | |
| Linda Evi Merians - 2001 - 308 pages
...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... | |
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