An Account of the Cape of Good Hope

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Excerpt from An Account of the Cape of Good Hope: Containing an Historical View of Its Original Settlement by the Dutch, Its Capture by the British in 1795, and the Different Policy Pursued There by the Dutch and British Governments, Also a Sketch of Its Geography, Production, the Manners and Customs Of The ship on board which the Author was embarked with a detachment of his regiment destined for the East Indies, having, in August 1796, put into False Bay for water and refreshments, was detained there nearly two months by one of those incidents common in time of war. During the period of his detention there, he had an opportunity of seeing and examining all that tract of country from False Bay' and the opposite coast Of Hot tentot Holland, to Table Bay, Cape Town and its neigh bourhood. This he was the better enabled to do, as the detachment of the 19th regiment, to which he belonged, was part of the force disembarked at Simon's Town, and which marched for the defence of Cape Town, at that critical period when General Craig, with the greatest part of the garrison, proceeded to Saldahna Bay against the Dutch Fleet under Admiral Lucas, which put in there in hopes of being joined by a French squadron from the Isle of France, and in conjunction with the Boors and Colonists of the Interior attempted to retake the Cape from the English. In this, however, they were disap pointed by the extraordinary activity and exertion of Sir James Craig, and the army under his command, together with the unexpected appearance of Admiral Elphinstone, (now Lord Keith) with the English ¿eet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.