All 4 Uses of
Cape of Good Hope
in
Gulliver's Travels
- We had a very prosperous gale, till we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, where we landed for fresh water; but discovering a leak, we unshipped our goods and wintered there; for the captain falling sick of an ague, we could not leave the Cape till the end of March.†
Chpt 2 *
- But meeting a trade-wind two days after I came on board him, we sailed southward a long time, and coasting New Holland, kept our course west-south-west, and then south-south-west, till we doubled the Cape of Good Hope.†
Chpt 2
- We sailed with a fair wind to the Cape of Good Hope, where we staid only to take in fresh water.†
Chpt 3
- However, I did then believe us to be about 10 degrees southward of the Cape of Good Hope, or about 45 degrees southern latitude, as I gathered from some general words I overheard among them, being I supposed to the south-east in their intended voyage to Madagascar.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(Cape of Good Hope) a point of land in southwestern South Africa