 | Eric Axelson - 1973 - 308 pages
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 | 1977 - 516 pages
...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,... | |
 | Stephen Gray - 1979 - 232 pages
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 | Arthur Bryant - 1980 - 242 pages
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 | Mary Gunn, L. E. W. Codd - 1981 - 844 pages
...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... | |
 | 1946 - 1150 pages
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 | David Lamb - 1982 - 396 pages
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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. 
