The Africa Pilot: South and east coasts of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Cape Guardafui, including the islands in Mozambique Channel. Part IIIHydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1878 |
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14 miles Agulhas anchor anchorage appears bank bearing berth bluff boats bushy cables cape Agulhas cape Hangklip cape Natal cape point cape St channel cliffs coast conspicuous coral covered with bush dangerous Delagoa bay depth dhows distance Dyer island east point eastern side edge entrance extreme fathoms water feet high flat fringed with rocks full and change gales half a mile harbour height high water hillocks island islet land ledge light lighthouse Manda island mangrove miles eastward monsoon mouth Mozambique Mozambique channel Mwamba nearly north-east north-west northward outer pass patch peak port quarter Rás Recife ridge river Robben island rocky round runs sand hills sandy beach sea breaks seaward seen shallow ship shoal soundings south-east south-west southerly southern southward springs rise steep-to steer stream Struys Table bay three-quarters tide town trees vessel village visible weather western westward winds yards Zanzibar
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Pagina 21 - If, therefore, the stratum of air in the ordinary humid condition should be suddenly lifted 3,600 feet, viz., to about the height of Table Mountain, its temperature would be lowered by 12°, and a portion of the humidity would be condensed in the form of cloud or fog, irrespective of each cubic foot becoming lighter by about 61 grains. The strong and occasionally violent southerly winds which prevail during these months effect the displacement. Table Mountain, like a huge wall, receives some four...
Pagina 10 - Cape in 1591, and about 1602 the Dutch made it a place of call. In 1620 two English East India commanders, by a proclamation dated from Saldanha Bay, took possession of the Cape in the name of Great Britain; but no settlement was formed. In 1648 a Dutch East Indiaman, the f Hnnrlem, was wrecked in Table Bay, the crew remaining there some time.
Pagina 90 - In the case of vessels touching for water and supplies, they may ride at single anchor, but they must then anchor well to the northward, so as to prevent danger (in case of drifting) to the vessels moored ; and it is particularly recommended, when riding at single anchor, to veer out 70 or 80 fathoms of chain ; the other bower cables should be ranged, and the anchor kept in perfect readiness to let go.
Pagina 21 - ... the current, which bounds up with diminishing temperature, and deposits the celebrated " table cloth or cap " on the top. The upper surface of this majestic white cap is smoothed off like a welldressed peruke : its North border hangs over the precipice, drapery fashion ; but during very strong winds it pours down like a cataract to about 1,000 feet from the top, where, entering a warmer temperature, it dissolves and disappears.
Pagina 407 - Monsoon. — The current in the Arabian Sea generally sets to the south-westward, its velocity depending on the force of the wind. When the wind is light there is little or no current.
Pagina 33 - CAUTION. There is a fish in Simon's Bay, commonly called Toad Fish ; it is about six inches long, back dark, with deep black stripes; belly white, with faint yellow patches ; it swims near the surface, and is a constant attendant on lines employed fishing. When taken from the water, it puffs out considerably. Should any portion of this fish be eaten, DEATH ENSUES in a few minutes.
Pagina 366 - Tudor is a laud-locked harbour on the north side of the island, and is reached by a narrow winding channel on the east side of Mombasa island, which has depths of from eight to twenty fathoms, and more in places with bold shores. There are few more beautiful places than this winding channel with its steep wooded banks. The anchorage at Port Tudor is in from five to ten fathoms, mud ; and although the passage is impracticable for a sailing ship on account of its windings, there is no difficulty for...
Pagina 21 - ... interesting of the phenomena occasionally attending it, is the revolving mass of detachments which hovers over Cape Town, fed by a stream of shreds from the cap on one side, which are disbursed or thrown off on the other, and float towards Table Bay, where they disappear. The black south-easter cap differs from the preceding by the nimbus tint of a canopy of cloud which projects on the southern side of the mountain over Rondebosch and Claremont, and from which light rain occasionally falls. The...
Pagina 370 - Morabas also ; and as the harbour of the latter is much superior. Melinda began to decline. It is not known when and in what manner it was taken from the Portuguese; but it seems that in the beginning of the last century it was in possession of the Arabs. Nor is it known in what manner it was lost by the Arabs ; but when Captain Vidal visited the place in 1824, he found that the territories of the antient kingdom of Melinda were totally occupied by the Galla, a savage nation, which has carried its...
Pagina 10 - But the extensive colony now known by that name is washed by the Atlantic and the Southern or Indian Oceans .on the west and south ; it is bounded on the north to the west of longitude 22°...