Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . ide floating oer the tide, Shall drive. Unless my hearts full raptures fail, 0 Lusus, oft shalt thou thy children wail! Each year thy shipwreckd sons shalt thou deplore, Each year thy sheeted masts shall strew my shore ! The frontispiece to this volume—a copy from an antiqueoriginal—represents da Gamas ship and the Spectre of theCape. The table-land of the promontory is seen through thedrift of the tempest, towards the east. The ship is broached to,her sails clos
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . ide floating oer the tide, Shall drive. Unless my hearts full raptures fail, 0 Lusus, oft shalt thou thy children wail! Each year thy shipwreckd sons shalt thou deplore, Each year thy sheeted masts shall strew my shore ! The frontispiece to this volume—a copy from an antiqueoriginal—represents da Gamas ship and the Spectre of theCape. The table-land of the promontory is seen through thedrift of the tempest, towards the east. The ship is broached to,her sails close-furled, with the exception of the foresail, whichhas broken loose and is flapping wildly in the hurricane. Boththe engraving and the description we have quoted from Camoensare strikingly illustrative of those visionary horrors which per-vaded the minds of the navigators of the period, and are alsocharacteristic of that peculiar cloud whose sudden envelopmentof the Cape is the sure forerunner of a storm. The artist seemsto have chosen the moment when the spectre, having uttered hisdreadful prophecy, is vanishing into THE MAN OVERBOARD, AND THE ALBATROSS. CHAPTER XIX. DA GAMA AND THE NEGROES—THE HOTTENTOTS AND CAFFRES—ADVENTUREWITH AN ALBATROSS THE RIVER OF GOOD PROMISE MOZAMBIQUE TREACH-ERY OF THE NATIVES MOMBASSA—MELINDA, AND ITS AMIABLE KING—FES-TIVITIES THE MALABAR COAST CALICUT THE ROUTE TO THE INDIES DIS-COVERED. Da Gama landed some two hundred miles beyond the Cape,and, discharging the victualling-ship of her stores, ordered herto be burned, as the king had directed. He then entered intocommercial relations with the natives, and exchanged red night-caps for ivory bracelets. Then came two hundred blacke men,some lyttle, some great, bringing with them twelve oxen and foursheep, and as our men went upon shore they began to play uponfour flutes, according with four sundry voices, the music where-of sounded very well. Which the generall hearing, commanded176
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