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Identifier: pioneersinsoutha00johnuoft (find matches)
Title: Pioneers in South Africa
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Walter Paget (1862-1935), Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927
Subjects: South Africa -- Discovery and exploration South Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: London Blackie
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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s, were prized as whetstones for sharpeningknives; so that a Dodo was often killed merely to providea means for putting a good edge on the knives and razorsof a ships crew. When the Dodos were all dead, and the forest near theharbours had been cut down, the Dutch neglected andabandoned this beautiful island—it is difficult to under-stand why—and in 1714 it was occupied by the FrenchEast India Company, and became soon afterwards aflourishing French colony (Llle-de-France). Nearly onehundred years afterwards it was captured by the British,and has been a British possession ever since. On the Atlantic side of the great southern prolongationof Africa was the little island of St. Helena,1 discovered St. Helena is the crater or craters of an extinct volcano which once crowned iconsiderable area of land in the southern Atlantic, now submenu) beneath thIt is possible that at the distant time when West Africa was connected with Brazil,St Helena and Ascension were connected with West Africa.
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DUTCH SAILORS PURSUING DODOS The Explorations of the Dutch 119 about 1502 by the Portuguese, but only used by themintermittently; though they sometimes put on shore hereturbulent men, and left them for years to play RobinsonCrusoe. At the same time they also landed pigs andgoats, which played the usual havoc with the nativefauna of birds and the interesting flora of trees andshrubs. The ships of the Dutch East India Company took tocalling here for fresh water and vegetables on their wayto and from India, and in 1645 definitely occupied theisland. But St. Helena was also coveted by the rivalEnglish East India Company, whose captains uncere-moniously seized it in 1655, whilst the Dutch were busyover the foundation of their halfway house at the Capeof Good Hope. At first, like the Portuguese, the Dutchused St. Helena as their Atlantic basis, and attempted inthe season of the southern summer to sail right roundSouth Africa without stopping, their next calling placebeing the island of Mauri

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