'775^ thought proper to name them after two experienced Swediih navigators, who at the fame time have deferved the approbation of the public by the charts they have given of the African coaft, I mean the Captains E k f .b e r g arid B u r t z . The former has given the world a good chart and defcription of Table and Falfe-bays. The other in his later voyages has added to the obfervations made by the former gentleman upon thefe places* and has extremely well laid down the coaft between MoJJel-bay and the Cape; during the period that, being on his return from China in the Swediih Eaft-Indiaman, the Stockholm Slott, he had the misfortune to be detained for a coniiderable length o f time by contrary winds, in coniequence of his ihip’s having loft her rudder. Captain B u r t z likewife kindly communicated to me the views of the country as' they are feen from the fea, which are placed at the top of my map. The little iiland which I have placed near P o i n t E k e - b e r g I have, in fait, never feen myfelf, but thought it right, at all events, to lay down on that ipot, as Captain B u r t z was induced by an old Portuguefe chart, that gives a tolerable idea of the coaft, to conclude, that the bay-called in it Bay-conjlant, where there is a little iiland near the point, is the fame inlet that I have laid down near Kromme- rivier; fo that, being on ihore, I poffibly might not be lituated fo as to fee the iiland diftinit from the continent. Here it is likewife neceifary to remark, that all the maps and charts of the eaftem coaft of Africa hitherto known, are faulty in making the extent of it to the eaft- ward much lefs than.it really is, and than I found it to be in my journey over land. I am likewife feniible, that many many navigators have, in the courfe of their voyages, taken notice o f the fame error ; and among them Captain C o o k , at the time when, being on his return , from his firft voyage round the globe in the Endeavour, he fell in with this coaft unawares. Moreover, during our ftay near Sea-cow- river, a ihip was feen one evening under full fail making direftly for the ihore, and did not tack about till ihe was almoft too near. I afterwards learnt at the Cape, that this was a Dutch veifel; and that from the chart ihe carried with her, ihe had not expefted to come upon the coaft nearly fo foon, nor had ihe perceived it till juft before ihe had tacked about. My hoft, who, while the vef- fel was hovering about the coaft, had rode along with me to .a part of the ihore higher than the reft, could diftin- guiih the ihip’s crew from thence; but it feems that none o f them faw us, probably on account of fome mift or exhalation proceeding from the land. I remember to have read fomewhere in an Engliih Magazine an account of the Doddington, an Engliih Eaft-Indiaman, having fuffered ihip wreck' on an iiland or rock lituated 3 3 f deg- orJ more .probably, 32 1 S. lat. near the eaftem coaft of Africa. This account mentions, that two perfons rowed in a ikiff from the wreck to the continent, where, as foon as they arrived, which was towards the evening, wearied out with hard labour, they turned the boat topfy turvy, and crept under it in order to go to reft; riotwithftanding which they were in great danger from the wild beafts, (probably the hycenas or tiger-wolves) which endeavoured to fqueeze themfelves in under the boat in order to get at them. The next morning they met with the ;>775- November.
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