The Cape Of Good Hope Being Generally Visited By Ships Going To The East Indies And China, There Are Many Accounts Of It And The Adjacent Country, In The Relation Of Voyages To Those Parts.

Since it came into the possession of the British, this part of Africa has frequently become the ultimate and special object of travellers.

The oldest accounts were published in the Dutch and German languages.

654. Reise Beschriebung, 1660-1667 unter die Africanisken Vaelker besonders die Hottentiten. Von. J. Breyer. Leips. 1681. 8vo.

655. Reise nach dem Vorgeberg der Guten Hopnung. Von Peter Kolb. Nuremberg, 3 vol. fol. - This voluminous work, originally published in Dutch, was abridged and published in French, in 3 vols. 12mo. From this abridgment, an English translation was published in 2 vols. 8vo. in 1738. Both the entire and abridged work have been frequently published. The reason for this popularity and general sale, must be sought in Kolben's work, being, for a long time, the only detailed account of this part of Africa, and from its enjoying a reputation for accuracy, which subsequent travellers have destroyed, especially De la Caille, the celebrated astronomer, in the following work.

656. Journal du Voyage fait au Cap de Bonne Esperance. Paris, 1673. 12mo. - This work is well known to astronomers; but it also deserves to be perused by those who wish to detect the errors of Kolben, and by the light which it throws on the manners of the Hottentots.

657. Description du Cap de Bonne Esperance.

Enter page number Go  Previous Next
Page 933 of 1007
Words from 254003 to 254254 of 273188