C' o' P t fi ri t s.
C l A IV. XIV.
Our Arrival at Ihe' Cape cf-.QoodrHop'e ffome Retfiarks on fheR-utt
■ from Java Head'-to that Placed, a D'efcription of the Cape and of
Saint Helena: WithJbme Account of the Hottentots, and the Return
o f the Ship to England.
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V O Y A G E round the W O R L 0.
B O O K II,
C H .A P. VIL
Range from. Gape Turnagain fbuthward along’ the eajlefn1
Coaf o f Poenatnmoo, round Cape South, and back to the:
voejlern Entrance of Cook’s■ :S’freight, which ■ completed
the Circumnavigation 6f;this Country \ with a Defcription;
o f the Coajl, and of Adm iralty Bay r ’The Departure•-
from New Zealand, and various Particulars.:
AT four o’clock in the afternoon of Friday the 9th of Fe- 177a.'
bruary, having tacked, -we Hoed S. W. and continued , Febraary-/
to make fail to the fouthward till funfet on the nth, when 5ll£jSg.r
a frefh breeze at N. E, had carried us-back again the length
of Cape Palhfer, of -which as-the weather was. clear we had
a good view. Between the foot ofrhe high land and the fea
there is a low flat border, off which there are fotne rocks;
that .appear above water,. Between this Cape and Cape-
Turnagain, the land near the fhore is, in many places, low
and flat,, and has a green and pleafant appearance ; but farther
from the fea it rife« into hills. The land between
S Cape