The Cape of Adventure

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Excerpt from The Cape of Adventure: Being Strange and Notable Discoveries, Perils Shipwrecks, Battles Upon Sea and Land, With Pleasant and Interesting Observations Upon the Country and the Natives of the Cale of Good HopeI owe a debt of gratitude besides to that admirable collector and bibliographer, Mr. Sidney Mendelssohn. When I had the privilege of writing the Introduction to his great work, I made free use of his library for about a year, and explored it with his learned assist ance. Since then he has placed it freely at my disposal, and many of the extracts here gathered are taken from books on his shelves. The present book, indeed, might be called an appendix to my Introduction to the Mendelssohn Bibliography. I have also to thank Mr. P. E. Lewin, the librarian of the Royal Colonial Insti tute, for his learned assistance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.