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Map of the Cape of Good Hope, with an inset showing the bay of Augusto de Santa Bras on Madagascar and a view of the Cape of Good Hope
Anoniem / Anonymous / Claesz, Cornelis
Map of the Cape of Good Hope, with an inset showing the bay of Augusto de Santa Bras (Mosselbay) and a view of the Cape of Good Hope.
This is an illustration taken from a book about the first journey to the east led by Cornelis de Houtman. This fleet moored in Madagascar.
Southeast of the Cape of Good Hope, birds are shown swimming and seaweed drifts in the water.
Letters are indicated, but there is no key.
An East Indiaman sails east of the continent.
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