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early navigators, and with the growth of Cape Town Saldanha Bay was rarely visited. Considerable deposits of freestone in the neighbourhood attracted See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention during the later 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. - Proposals were also made to create a See also:

PORT

port which could be supplied by water from the See also:

BERG (Ducatus Montensis)

Berg See also:

RIVER

river, 20 M. distant. From Kalabas See also:

KRAAL

Kraal on the Cape Town-Clanwilliam railway, a narrow See also:

GAUGE, or GAGE (Med. Lat. gauja, jaugia, Fr. jauge, perhaps connected with Fr. jale, a bowl, galon, gallon)

gauge See also:

LINE

line runs via Hopefield to Hoetjes Bay—126 m. from Cape Town. Saldanha Bay is so named after See also:

Antonio de Saldanha, See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain of a See also:

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel in See also:

Albuquerque's fleet which visited South Africa in 1503. The name was first given to Table Bay, where Saldanha's See also:

SHIP

ship See also:

CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast See also:

ANCHOR (from the Greek ayrcvpa, which Vossius considers is from 6yi17 , a crook or hook)

anchor. On Table Bay being given its See also:

PRESENT

present name (1601) the older appellation was transferred to the bay now called after Saldanha. In 1781 a See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

SQUADRON

squadron under See also:

COMMODORE (a form of " commander"; in the 17th century the term " commandore " is used)

Commodore See also:

George See also:

JOHNSTONE

Johnstone 1731-1787) seized six Dutch See also:

East Indiamen, which, fearing an attack on Cape Town, had taken See also:

REFUGE

refuge in Saldanha Bay. This was the only achievement, so far as South Africa was concerned, of the expedition despatched to seize Cape Town during the See also:

war of 1781-1783.

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