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	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia History of Africa - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1482 Diogo Cão discovered the mouth of the Congo, the Cape of Good Hope was rounded by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, and in 1498 Vasco da Gama, after having rounded the Cape, sailed up the east coast, touched at Sofala and Malindi, and went thence to India.
		To the Portuguese the Cape of Good Hope was simply a landmark on the road to India, and mariners of other nations who followed in their wake used Table Bay only as a convenient spot wherein to refit on their voyage to the East.
		In its inception the settlement at the Cape was not intended to become an African colony, but was regarded as the most westerly outpost of the Dutch East Indies.
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	Africa
		She ruled the west coast and the Cape of Good Hope from Lisbon, and the east coast, as a part of India, from Goa; and there were none but the Arabs to dispute her sway.
		Cape Colony: A British colony occupying the southern part of the African continent; bounded on the north by German Southwest Africa, Bechuanaland, the Orange River Colony, Basutoland, and Natal.
		The construction of railways, connecting Rhodesia with Cape Town and the Portuguese seaports and opening up the country beyond the Zambesi, is bringing many colonists into the country; and their advent implies that a testing time of the reality of the Christianity of the native churches is at hand.
	cblibrary.org /schaff_h/aa/africa.htm (18771 words)

	ITALIAN - Encyclopedia Britannica - ITALIAN - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The coast rises in a succession of hills (fringed by a narrow margin of beach) until Cape G uardaf ui is reached.
		Cape Guardaf ui is in 11 75' N., 51 26' 32" E., and forms, as it were, the tip of the Horn of Africa.
		from that cape is Ras Hafun or Meduddathe most easterly point of the continent of Africabeing in 10 45' S., 51 27' 52" E., or about a mile and a half east of Guardafui.
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	vol02chap06sect09
		That Saldanna prosecuted his voyage to Cape Guardafui, where he had taken many rich prizes, without having entered the Red Sea; after which he had sailed to India, and the winter coming on, had taken shelter in Anchediva, where he was afterwards joined by Lorenzo.
		Being arrived directly abreast of Cape Comorin, he met with a sudden whirlwind, by which he was nearly cast away, and when this subsided, he came to anchor within a league of the shore, where he remained all night.
		Pacheco remained for some time off the Cape in expectation of the other ships of the Moors coming round from Coromandel, but none making their appearance, he went to Coulan with the ship he had captured, which he delivered to the factor at that city with all its rich merchandize.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/kerr/vol02chap06sect09.html (4706 words)

	Africa/Geography - Wikipedia
		Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea, it is joined to Asia at its N.E. extremity by the Isthmus of Suez, 130 km (80 miles) wide.
		From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka, a little west of Cape Blanc, in 37 deg.
		Off the north-west coast are the Canary and Cape Verde archipelagoes.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Africa/Geography (3336 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Somaliland
		A triangular-shaped territory in the north-eastern extremity of Africa, projecting into the ocean towards the island of Socotra; its apex is at Cape Guarafui.
		England is established to the east on the entire coast facing Arabia as far as Cape Guardafui; its principal towns are Zeila and Berbera.
		Those of the north and of the towns on the coast are rigorous and fanatical observers of Islam, and despise the "infidels," whether white or fl.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14139a.htm (647 words)

	BRITISH - Encyclopedia Britannica - BRITISH - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		of Cape Guardafui, and stretches from the coast inland for a breadth varying from 8o to 220 M. The protectorate is bounded W. by French Somaliland, S.W. by Abyssinian territory, and S.E. and E. by Italian Somaliland.
		Between the Harrar plateau and Cape Guardafui the coast ranges maintain a mean altitude of from 4000 to 5000 ft., and fall generally in steep escarpments down to the narrow strip of sandy lowlands skirting the Gulf of Aden.
		In 1874-1875 the ambition of Ismail Pasha, khedive of Egypt, who claimed jurisdiction over the whole coast as far as Cape Guardafui, led him to occupy the ports of Tajura, Berbera and Bulhar as well as Harrar in the hinterland.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/BRI_BUN/BRITISH.html (2349 words)

	Gulf of Aden -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Named after the seaport of Aden, in southern Yemen, the gulf is situated between the coasts of Arabia and the Horn of Africa.
		To the west, it narrows into the Gulf of Tadjoura; its eastern geographic limits are defined by the meridian of Cape Guardafui (51°16 E).
		Its 600 miles (1,000 kilometres) of coastline extend from Cape Kasar, in the north, to the Strait of Mandeb, separating the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aden in the south.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9003716 (914 words)

	CAPE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870
		History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899
		Find graves of people named CAPE at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
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	Chapter 15 - Wm Irvine Book - Gospel in South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a direct line, it is about 5,000 miles from Algiers in the North of Africa to Cape Town in the South; and about the same distance from Cape Verde in the West to Cape Guardafui in the East.
		Cape Town is the second largest city in the Republic of South Africa, after Johannesburg.
		The first white settlement at the Cape was made as a Dutch refreshment station and mail exchange for their ships which traded between Holland and the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia).
	home.earthlink.net /~truth333/BRG4-4-15WmIBook.html (6435 words)

	GUARDAFUI [II:1121b] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		GUARDAFUI, the cape at the north-east tip of the Horn of Africa, in Somalia, known also as
		The origin of the name is uncertain; the present form is one of several variants occurring in the Portuguese writers.
		, given to a prominent cape further to the south.
	www.encislam.brill.nl /data/EncIslam/S3/SIM-2543.html (127 words)

	CAMOENS - LoveToKnow Article on CAMOENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In those days the sailors navigated the ships, while the men-atarms kept the day and night watches, helped in the cleaning and, in case of necessity, at the pumps, but the rank of Camoens doubtless saved him from manual work.
		It seems probable that the idea of the Lusiads took further shape on the voyage out, and that Camoens modified his plan; cantos 3 and 4 were already written, but from an historical he now made it a maritime epic.
		Returning to Goa in November he learnt of the deaths of Prince John, and of his friend and pupil the young D. Antonio de Noronha, and paid his tribute in a feeling sonnet and eclogue, En February 1555 he sailed on.
	95.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CAMOENS.htm (6336 words)

	Geography of Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea, it is joined to Asia at its northeast extremityby the Isthmus of Suez, 130 km (80 miles) wide.
		From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka in Morocco, a little west of Cape Blanc, in 37 deg.
		51' 15" S., is adistance approximately of 8,000 km (5,000 miles); from Cape Verde, 17 deg.
	www.therfcc.org /geography-of-africa-80795.html (2962 words)

	SOKOTRA - LoveToKnow Article on SOKOTRA
		It is cut by 12 30 N., 540 E., lies about 130 m.
		E.N.E. Of Cape Guardafui and about 190 m.
		S.E. of the nearest part of the coast of Arabia and is on the direct route to India by the Suez Canal.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SO/SOKOTRA.htm (2144 words)

	Kerr . A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Volume 09 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aloes is made from the leaves of a plant resembling our sempervivum, or house-leek, the roots and stalk being cut away, the rest strongly pressed, and the juice boiled up to a certain height, after which it is put into earthen pots, closely stopped for eight months, and is then put into skins for sale.
		The north part of Socotora is in 12° 30', and the body in 120° 25'.[166] It is fourteen leagues from this island to _Abdul Curia_, and as much more from thence to cape Guardafui.
		Such as mean to sail for Socotora, should touch at that cape, and sail from thence next morning a little before day-break, to lose no part of the day-light, the nights here being dark and obscure, with fogs and boisterous winds, during the months of August and September.
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	Cape Guardafui - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cape Guardafui - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Cape Guardafui (Gees Gwardafuy, Ras Asir), in Somalia, is the headland that forms the geographical apex of what is commonly known as the Horn of Africa.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Cape Guardafui contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Cape_Guardafui (97 words)

	ITALIAN - Online Information article about ITALIAN
		Aden intersected by 49° E., eastward to Cape Guardafui, and thence southward to the mouth of the See also:
		beach) until Cape G uardaf ui is reached.
		Cape Guardaf ui is in 11 ° 75' N., 51° 26' 32" E., and forms, as it were, the tip of the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /INV_JED/ITALIAN.html (2846 words)

	Africa -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the northeast, Africa was joined to Asia by the Sinai Peninsula until the construction of the Suez Canal.
		Helena, and Tristan da Cunha to the southwest; Cape Verde, the Bijagós Islands, Bioko, and São Tomé and Príncipe to the west; and the Azores and the Madeira and Canary islands to the northwest.
		The continent is cut almost equally in two by the Equator, so that most of Africa lies within the tropical region, bounded on the north by the Tropic of Cancer and on the south by the Tropic of Capricorn.
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		It occupies the whole of the Eastern Horn, extending from the north of Bab el Mandeb to several degrees south of Cape Guardafui.
		In the former direction it is bounded by the Dankali and the Ittoo Gallas; in the latter by the Sawahil or Negrotic regions; the Red Sea is its eastern limit, and westward it stretches to within a few miles of Harar.
		Like the Kafir of the Cape, he passes his day whistling to his flocks and herds; moreover, he makes signals by changing the note, and is skilful in imitating the song of birds.
	www.wollamshram.ca /1001/East/firstFoot_Footers.htm (19327 words)

	Chapter GRUNTH <i>to</i> GUARDAFUI of G by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary
		the Peninsula of Ras Hafun (the Chersonnesus of the Periplus, the Zingis of Ptolemy, the Cape d’Affui and d’Orfui of old maps and nautical directories), and the cape of Jard-Hafun (or according to the Egyptian pronunciation, Gard-Hafun), i.e.
		We should have mentioned that Guardafui is the site of the mart and Promontory of the Spices described by the author of the Periplus as the furthest point and abrupt termination of the continent of Barbarice (or eastern Africa), towards the Orient ([Greek Text]
		According to C. Müller our Guardafui is called by the natives Ras Aser; their Ras Jardafun being a point some 12 m.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/260/1274/20025/2.html (714 words)

	book3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Starting on Sunday, September 3, 1939, when the ship was sailing from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town, and the news came that Britain had declared war on Nazi Germany -- and that the South African cabinet was divided.
		Most of the diaries deal with the day-to-day routine of serving on convoys around South Africa, under the threat of being torpedoed or bombed.
		Apostrophes bounce like shell splinters all over the place, and there are casual wrong spellings that should have been picked up -- Cape Guardafui, the easternmost tip of Africa, is given throughout as Cape Guardajui -- an understandable error in the hurry of writing a diary but inexcusable in a book offered to the public.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2001/03/03/features/BOOK3.HTM (350 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Zanzibar
		The best known political, commercial, and religious centre of this colonization, was, besides Lamu, Malindi, Mombasa, and Kilwa, the island and town of Zanzibar, situated a little south of lat.
		Vasco de Gama, sailing from Lisbon on 8 July, 1497, doubled the Cape of Good Hope and east anchor before Mozambique in March 1498.
		It extended originally from Cape Guardafui to Cape Delgado, with a coastline of about 1500 leagues, and no limits in the interior.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15750c.htm (1268 words)

	Black and White - Photos from Africa 1937 - page 5: Somalia, Sudan
		Cape Guardafui in Somalia is the most Eastern tip of Africa.
		Today the cape is mostly known in its Arabic name Ras Asir.
		The great cliff is also called the sleeping lion - take a look at the picture to see why.
	crawfurd.dk /africa/1937bw_5.htm (132 words)

	Chapter 3 And the Pink Arabian Sea
		With the opening of the Canal, the traffic past Guardafui and Socotra developed tremendously, and the "pink Arabian Sea" became Britain's chief highway to and from her Eastern Empire and the Eastern Dominions, with an important branch road running up to the head of the Persian Gulf.
		On the East African coast, Italian Somaliland extended from the Kenya border just south of the equator, north and to the westward of Guardafui, where it met the boundary of British Somaliland.
		On the western coast of the Red Sea, Italian Eritrea ran from the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb some 300 miles north to its coastal junction with the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
	www.diggerhistory2.info /ran/1942/03.htm (2924 words)

	Königsberg Summary
		On July 31, the Deutsche Ost Afrika steamer Tabora arrived with news that three cruisers of the British Cape Squadron were due to coal at Zanzibar the next day.
		British Admiral King-Hall was left to his own fury at letting the cruiser escape from under his very nose, and Captain Looff waited for war in a cruiser already looking for more coal to fill her bunkers.
		Six nights later, Königsberg was pushing her way through heavy seas off Cape Guardafui when she received the long anticipated order: EGIMA, the code word meaning that Germany was now at war with England, France and Russia.
	www.richthofen.com /konigsberg/summary/index.htm (3802 words)

	Cape Guardafui Somalia headland Horn of Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		second voyage, but on its return passage Eudoxus' ship was blown ashore below Cape Guardafui (the Cape of Spices off the Horn of Africa).
		It was here that he found a wooden prow, carved with a...
		S.E. of the nearest part of the coast of Arabia and is on the direct route...
	en.powerwissen.com /G6zFtxWfMFDh%7C%7CSL%7C%7CBa7FD32lA%3D%3D_Gees_Gwardafuy.html (135 words)

	demerol.ca - Cape Guardafui (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	The Southern Gates of Arabia by Freya Stark
		Few books are more beguiling than this of the old captain—for elderly I think he must have been to have had so intimate a knowledge of voyages behind him.
		After his African journey to the frankincense lands that lie by the Cape of Spices which is now Cape Guardafui, he starts from Egypt eastward.
		Beyond it, eastward, “is a continuous length of coast and a bay extending two hundred miles or more, along which there are Nomads and Fish Eaters living in villages; and just beyond the cape projecting from this bay, another market town by the shore, Cana of the Frankincense country.
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	The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 by Emma Helen Blair - Full Text Free Book (Part 3/5)
		Cape Comerin whither it was navigated from Guardafui in an east and
		Maluco Islands, is the cape of Catigara, inasmuch as the companions
		Spice Islands, and the shores and principal capes in the Castilian
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	Ocean Vessels and the Distribution of Birds
		For six days the crows remained aboard; on November 18, the ship came within eight miles of Cape Guardafui, Somaliland, Africa, and the Socotra Islands.
		The sea was smooth and land clearly visible.
		The crows left the ship and flew towards the Cape.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v068n04/p0529-p0530.html (720 words)

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