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Hope; this the authors have placed farther north, the name 

 " Cap de Bonne Esperance " standing opposite what appears to 

 be intended for the entrance to Hout Bay). But most of the 

 17th and i8th century maps (see maps by J. S.. 1626, Dehsle's 

 " Carte d'Afrique," n.d.. Delahay's map, n.d., Eman. Boven's 

 map, 1748, M. I'Abbe de la Caille's map, ,1763, " Hanglip ou 

 Cap False ") mark the Cape, now known as Cape Hangklip. as 

 Cape Falso. Paterson (" Narrative of Four Journeys," 1789, 

 p. 8) also applies both names to the same physical feature thus : 

 " Next morning we continued our journey round the Hang 

 Lip, or Cape False." Sparrman's map, 1785, marks Hanglip, 

 and then further to the south-east, about where Danger Point 

 should be, he marks the " False Planglip." Le Vaillant's map 

 places a " Valse Hanglip " at the same point as Sparrman, but 

 ignores the real Hanglip ahogether ; and " Latrobe's map, 1818, 

 marks " Cape False or Hangeklip." Query : Where was the 

 original Cape False? 



Another interesting point arises as to the origin of the name 

 False Bay. Percival (" Account of the Cape of Good Hope," 

 1804, p. 41) says: "False Bay is so called from Cape False"; 

 but Thompson ("Travels in Southern Africa," 1827, p. 429) 

 gives the name False Bay another origin : 



"False Bay, so called from ships having often been deceived in coming 

 from the eastward. After rounding Hanglip, in darkish weather, 

 imagining that they had passed the real Cape of Good Hope, they stand 

 to the north, when in a short time they find themselves on the 

 Muizenberg beach at the bottom of False Bay." 



A puzzle of a somewhat similar character is as to the exact 

 locality of the Fenedo das Pontes (Port, penedo, a rock; fonte, 

 a fountain or spring). This name is said to have been given 

 by some of Diaz' people to an island in Algoa Bay, which Diaz 

 himself (i486) named " Ilheo da Santa Cruz," now known as 

 St. Croix. The name refers to two springs of fresh water 

 found on the island — see Duarte Pachaco, " Esmeraldo de situ 

 Orbis," p. 94. Theal ("The Portuguese in Sotith Africa," 

 1896, p. 83) says that the island is often mentioned by this name 

 in ancient books. But Perestello, who made a survey of the 

 coast in 1575, from Table Bay to Cape Correntes, identifies the 

 Penedo das Pontes with the " Ship Rock," a few miles to the 

 south-west of the Kowie River. There are certain rocks in the 

 neighbourhood which are known as the " Fountain Rocks," 

 which name is supposed by some to be the lineal descendant of 

 the Portuguese " Penedo das Pontes." It must be said that at 

 present it appears to be somewhat of an open question as to 

 which of these two places {i.e., the island of " St. Croix " in 

 Algoa Bay, or the " Fountain Rocks " near Port Alfred) was 

 the real " Penedo das Pontes." Professor Schwarz's paper on 

 the subject (Report S.A.A.A.S., 1912, p. 103) is scarcely 

 conclusive. What a pity that the scraps of paper found in the 

 box which was unearthed at the Kowie, of which he speaks, 



