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  • Cape of Good Hope, he pushed forward into unknown seas, and penetrated through innumerable mountains and islands of ice, in the search of a southern continent.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

  • “Enemy steering between southeast and south,” he signaled, and then turned away to gather up Monmouth and Otranto and join Good Hope, still out of sight to the west.

    Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

  • Diemen's Land, or in Australia; and Burchell says that during the five years he was at the Cape of Good Hope, he never heard of an instance of it.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • Diemen's Land, or in Australia; and Burchell says that during the five years he was at the Cape of Good Hope, he never heard of an instance of it.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • The last two were of little concern, and he believed that Good Hope was so heavily damaged that she would either sink or make for Valparaíso for repairs, in which case he hoped to persuade the Chilean government to disarm and intern her.

    Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

  • Cape of Good Hope, he pushed forward into unknown seas, and penetrated through innumerable mountains and islands of ice, in the search of a southern continent.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

  • Even so, considering the large size of her hull, Good Hope was laughably undergunned, with two 9. 2-inch and sixteen 6-inch guns, half of the latter mounted in broadside batteries so close to the water that they could not be fired in a heavy sea.

    Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

  • Information supplied by the community on the Cape Flats helped police attached to Operation Good Hope prevent urban terror over the past seven weeks, Good Hope head Ganief Daniels said in Cape

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • The recent awarding of South Africa's highest honour, the Order of Good Hope, to Indonesian president Mohamed Suharto was "tainted by just such suspicions", especially after President Nelson Mandela publicly acknowledged Indonesia's contribution to the African

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • PRETORIA - South African warships will track a British ship loaded with reprocessed nuclear fuel destined for Japan if it rounds the Cape of Good Hope, a navy spokesman said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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