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Download or read book A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope written by Anders Sparrman and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. Residence At The Cape Of Good Hope Till The Author's Voyage To The South Sea. SECT. I. Rejidence at Cape Town. TH E Cape is ufually mentioned in too high terms 77 by fea-faring men; particularly by fuch as have been there only for a fhort time. The reafon probably is, that people, who are weary of a long and tedious voyage of feveral months duration, are ufually enchanted with the firft fpot of earth they fet foot upon, of which they afterwards make their reports according to the impreffion it firft made upon them. This is fo much more likely to happen with refpect to the Cape, as mariners are feldom ufed to ftay there long enough to be weary of it. On the contrary, however, it is not unufual for failors to pine and grow uneafy even here, after having been fome months on more, and to long to go to fea again. I have been informed Captain Cook, that he, as well as Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander, prejudiced by the relations of others, confidered the Cape, the firft time they faw it, as the moft delightful and fertile place in the world. So that even the barren heaths to the north of the town, were at the fame time very innocently miftaken by them for fine fields of corn. For my part, not to lead my readers into any error concerning this point, the account I here give of the Cape has not been written without fome .confideration. I muft, notwithftanding, previoufly remind them, that a view of the map inferted at the end of the book, will give the beft and cleareft idea of the pofition of the harbours and creeks of this part of the world, as well as of the names and fituation of the different mountains. By this means too, the following defcription will be the more eafily underftood. The town itfelf is the only one in the whole colony, and is properly ...
Download or read book Walks and Sketches at the Cape of Good Hope to Which Is Subjected a Journey written by Robert Semple and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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