...never without intolerable storms and present danger to travellers which come near the same. R1 , R3: This cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest...cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth, R1 , R2, R3: and we passed by it the 18th of June. From thence we continued our course to Sierra Leona,...

...marked on maps. A year later, Sir Francis Drake on his voyage round the world made his celebrated note "this Cape is a most stately thing, and the fairest...the whole circumference of the earth, and we passed it on 18 June." In 1580, Portugal was annexed to Spain and until 1640 Portuguese trade interests were...

...in. Sir Francis Drake's observation (or rather, that which appears in his ship's log) that it was the 'most stately thing and the fairest Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the world' in 1580 has been echoed down the centuries. In the early part of the nineteenth century, when...

...Radcliffe-Brown and Monica Hunter, had pioneered anthropology in the 1930s. Drake had described Cape Town as 'the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth'. Nature was indeed a delight: this tiny strip of land supported 2,600 different kinds of flowering plants,...