128 TRAVELS IN 
the Cape of Tempefts ; a fatal appellatlorJ, 
for which they foon after fubftituted the more 
coiifoling one of the Cape of Good Hope; 
when, upon opening to their fight the Indian 
ocean, it prefented to their barbarous avarice 
the poffeffion and treafures of the richeft coun- 
try in the univerfe. 
Placed on a fpot of the globe the moft fa- 
vourable, perhaps, for the grand fpedacles of 
nature ; I had on my right the Atlantic, on 
my left the Indian, and before me the South- 
ern ocean ; which, breaking with fury at my 
feet, feemed as if defirous of attacking the 
whole chain of mountains, and of fwallowing 
up Africa-, To render more magnificent the 
fublime effed of this pifture, I had only one 
wifh to make ; which was, to behold one of 
thofe tornadoes that gave rife to the fir ft ap- 
pellation of the promontory. For feveral 
hours I entertained hopes of this gratification, 
upon feeing long trains of fog raifed by the 
wind from the furface of the fea ; but my ex- 
pectations vv^ere foon fruftrated, and the air 
became fo pure and calm that I could very 
clearly diftinguifli, at tlie eaftern extremity of 
Falfe Bay, the famous Cape of Needles ; which, 
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