Travels in Eastern Africa, Volume 1

Table Bay-Breakwater to be Built-Harbour of Refuge-Policy of Sir George Grey-Proposal for Carrying the Mail to the Cape by way of Aden-Discovery of Coal on the Zambesi-Its Effects on the Future of South and East Africa-Absence of Trees at Cape Town-Climate of the Cape.

Since the Portuguese voyagers, Bartholomew Diaz and Vasco de Gama, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and opened to the commerce of Europe, by way of the Southern Ocean, the rich and still undeveloped countries of the East, what magnificent ships of war, and fleets of merchantmen-chartered with the good, the fair, and the brave-have sailed past that Cape of Tempests, finding, in the midst of that stormy sea, no haven of rest from the gale, no harbour of refuge from the hurricane!