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Diaz , driven south by storms , doubled the Cape unwittingly and reached Algoa Bay where , upon the islet now known as St. Croix , he erected yet another beacon . Diaz got no further than the Great Fish River and then had to turn for ...
Diaz , driven south by storms , doubled the Cape unwittingly and reached Algoa Bay where , upon the islet now known as St. Croix , he erected yet another beacon . Diaz got no further than the Great Fish River and then had to turn for ...
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Seldom has a battle been fought amid more splendid surroundings : the blue sea , the magnificent Cape Sierras , arrayed by turns in glorious masses of purple , brown and blue , terminating in the great promontories of Hangklip and Cape ...
Seldom has a battle been fought amid more splendid surroundings : the blue sea , the magnificent Cape Sierras , arrayed by turns in glorious masses of purple , brown and blue , terminating in the great promontories of Hangklip and Cape ...
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In 1802 was signed the Peace of Amiens ; and in 1803 , ful- filling its promise of 1795 , Great Britain handed back the Cape to the Dutch , and the British retired from the scene , after rather more than seven years of steady and honest ...
In 1802 was signed the Peace of Amiens ; and in 1803 , ful- filling its promise of 1795 , Great Britain handed back the Cape to the Dutch , and the British retired from the scene , after rather more than seven years of steady and honest ...
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