CONTENTS 
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CHAPTER XIX 
CAPE OF 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—Robben 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 
—lLand at Deal 
APPENDIX: Exscrricity 
INDEX 
PORTRAITS 
Sm JosrpH BANKS 
Dr. D. SOLANDER 
CHARTS 
Tue Wor xD, showing the track of the Endeavour 
Society IsLanps 
New ZEALAND 
MELANESIA 
East INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO 
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Page 459 
Frontispiece 
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