 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1897 - 600 pages
...present danger to travellers which come near the same.' Drake testified on the contrary that ' the Cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole 1 See the voyage of Pyrard de Laval, edited for the Hakluyt Society by Mr. Albert Gray, 1887-90, vol.... | |
 | Edgar Sanderson - 1898 - 464 pages
...home on the first British circumnavigation of the world, sighted the headland, which he describes as " a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth ". In 1591, the first expedition that left England for the East Indies sailed from Plymouth in three... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 642 pages
...Cape of the world, never without intolerable storms and present danger to travellers which 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. From thence we continued our course to Sierra Leone, on the cost of Guinea, where... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 650 pages
...Cape of the world, never without intolerable storms and present danger to travellers which 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. From thence we continued our course to Sierra Leone, on the coast Ťof Guinea,... | |
 | William Edward Garrett Fisher - 1900 - 418 pages
...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...cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth." Ten years later Linschoten describes the innocent surprise of a Portuguese captain " that God the Lord... | |
 | 1902 - 1136 pages
...since the day when Drake in his hundred - ton death - trap " ran hard aboard the Cape " and found it "the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth." He would have been thought a bold prophet in those days who saw in this an annunciation ; and small... | |
 | 1903 - 636 pages
...cape of the world, never without intolerable storms and present danger to travellers which come near the same. This cape is a most stately thing, and the...circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 1 8th of June. From thence we continued our course to Sierra Leona, on the coast of Guinea, where we... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Speight, Robert Morton Nance - 1906 - 448 pages
...cape in the world, never without intolerable storms and present danger to travellers, which come near the same. This cape is a most stately thing, and the...June. From thence we continued our course to Sierra Leone, on the coast of Guinea, where we arrived the 2 of July, and found necessary provisions, great... | |
 | Henry Frowde, M.A., Edited by Edward John Payne with Notes by C. Raymond Beazley - 1907 - 486 pages
...cape of the world, never without intolerable storms and present danger to travellers which come near the same. This cape is a most stately thing, and the...circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the i8. of June. From thence we continued our course to Sierra Leona, on the coast of Guinea, where we... | |
 | George McCall Theal - 1907 - 542 pages
...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... | |
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This cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth, and we passed by it the 1 8th of June. 
