CONTENTS xxi 



CHAPTER XIX 



CAPE OP GOOD HOPE TO ENGLAND 



Account of the Cape of Good Hope Its settlement by the Dutch Cape 

 Town Dutch customs Government Climate General healthiness 

 Animals Wines Cost of living Botanical garden Menagerie 

 Settlements in the interior Barrenness of the country Hottentots : 

 their appearance, language, dancing, customs, etc. Money Leave 

 Table Bay Eobben Island St. Helena Volcanic rocks Cultivation 

 Provisions Introduced plants Natural productions Ebony 

 Speculations as to how plants and animals originally reached so remote 

 an island Leave St. Helena Ascension Island Ascension to England 

 Land at Deal Page 432 



APPENDIX : ELECTRICITY Page 453 



INDEX Page 459 



PORTRAITS 



Sm JOSEPH BANKS Frontispiece 



DR. D. SOLANDER To face page xxxviii 



CHARTS 



THE WORLD, showing the track of the Endeavour . .At end of book 



SOCIETY ISLANDS 



NEW ZEALAND .....- 



MELANESIA ..... 



EAST INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO " 



