This latter place is seventy
Portuguese leagues, or above eighty marine leagues east from the cape.
- E.
[11] This account seems erroneous, whether St Katherines or Flesh Bay be
the one in question, as both ought to be safe in north winds, and the
winds between the S and E points give both a lee shore. - E.
[12] Probably a species of Penguins: Lichefield calls them _stares_, as
large as ducks; Osorius says the natives called them _satiliario_, and
that they were as big as geese. - E.
[13] Probably Rock Point, forming the western boundary of Algoa or
Zwartkops bay, in long. 27 deg. E. bring the rocky extreme promontory of
the Krakakamma ridge. - E.
[14] It is infinitely difficult to guess the course of these early voyages,
without latitudes or longitudes, and only estimated distances by dead
reckoning in uncertain leagues; but the Rio del Infante of this voyage
and that of Diaz, is probably that now called Great-fish river, in the
Zuureveld of Graaff Reynet, in long. 28 deg. 20' E which, however, is
twenty-six Portuguese leagues, or thirty geographical leagues from
Rocky Point, instead of the fifteen leagues of the text. - E.
[15] The sixty leagues in the text are inexplicable on any rational
supposition, as they seem to have again made the Rocks de la Cruz, or
rather Rocky Point, said just before to be only fifteen leagues from
Infante river, to which they were then bound.
