Annals of the South African Museum. 



Stone II. The Plettenberg Say Stone. 



The second Portuguese inscription, known as the Plettenberg Bay 

 Stone, was removed to Cape Town about the year I860. It is stated 

 that the stone originally stood on a sandhill about three miles south 

 of the present village of Plettenberg, on the littoral of the Cape 

 Province. 



FIG. -1. 

 52 cm. x 47 cm. 



This inscription reads, " Here was lost the ship Sao Gonzales. 

 Year 1630. They made two boats." 



The Sao Goncalo, or Gonzales, reached India on the 24th of 

 September, 1629, and left for the kingdom, i.e. Portugal, on the 

 4th of March of the year following. 



Fernao Lobo de Menezes was then captain of the vessel, and the 

 latter having sprung a leak, he made for the land, and "came to the 

 bay called Fermosa, on the confines of the Cape of Good Hope." But 

 while they were endeavouring to pump the vessel dry and trying to 

 right her, a storm came upon her while at anchor and she foundered. 



