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Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches

by George McCall Theal

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Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches is by George McCall Theal. The contents list names, among others, Exploration by the Portuguese of the Western Coast of Africa and Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, and The War on the Sea between Spain and the Netherlands. The text says that King João II was as resolute as his grand-uncle the Navigator in endeavouring to discover an ocean road to India.

A ship sent out in 1484 under Diogo Cam reached the mouth of the Congo. The text names Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein, more commonly known by his title of lord of Mydrecht, as the officer placed at the head of a commission of three members.

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George McCall Theal

George McCall Theal wrote the history that white South Africa taught itself for most of a century. Born in New Brunswick in 1837, he arrived at the Cape at twenty-three, worked as a teacher, journalist and then as the colony's official archivist and historiographer, and produced some forty volumes, including the eleven-part History of South Africa that the 1...

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