The Cape of Adventure Being Strange And Notable Discoveries Perils Shipwrecks
The Cape of Adventure Being Strange And Notable Discoveries Perils Shipwrecks
Ian Duncan Colvin
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' The whole pamphlet is given in the Records of South-Eastern Africa. ] Joseph de Cabreyra builds two ships after the WRECK OF THE Nossa SeuhoTa de Belem on the coast of Natal After some rest I began to consider the situation of the land and the large trees, and resolved in my mind to build a vessel, seeing the convenience of the river, if God gave us life, and I kept this resolution to myself and told no one of it. With this end in view I took measures, little by little, to get ashore several ...bags of rice and barrels of biscuit, fish, and meat, which was done with difficulty and great danger, although the distance was short, because of the constant heavy seas, which sometimes pi^evented us going to the ship for three days. There were always some of the men on board, for there they had more to eat, but this was made up for by the continual fear they endured from L 162 THE CAPE OF ADVENTURE the sea breaking over the ship and her constant creak- ing, as she was only kept together by the strength of the beams, which alone prevented her from going to pieces, and the sea rose and fell in her as in a broken basket, so that at high tide everything below the decks was under water.
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