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Cape Town

noun

Port city in southwestern South Africa; the seat of the legislative branch of the government of South Africa.

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"Cape town" Quotes from Famous Books

... winter; and, as their significance remained unexplained, public interest in them soon died out. The observatories at Harvard, Flagstaff, Cordoba, and the newer one on Table Mountain, near Cape Town, all reported the appearance of several new stars, flaring into prominence for a few hours and visible just after sunset and before dawn, on several nights during November. But these published statements were casually received and ...

— The Fire People • Ray Cummings

... from Cape Town the passengers had been chaffing each other about the chance of meeting modern, ...

— The Submarine Boys and the Middies - The Prize Detail at Annapolis • Victor G. Durham

... Wrangler of his year. He entered Holy Orders and was appointed Archdeacon of Natal, in which colony he laboured successfully for some years among the Zulus. Coming home, he was selected as the leader of the Universities Mission to Central Africa and was afterwards consecrated at Cape Town as the first Bishop of Central Africa. He subsequently proceeded to the Zambesi River, where, acting in concert with Dr Livingstone, he succeeded in liberating a large number of slaves from the hands of the drivers who were conducting them to the coast, and some of these liberated slaves ...

— History Of The Mackenzies • Alexander Mackenzie

... campaign, the fame of which rang over all Great Britain and her colonies, was the gallant but hopeless stand made by Major Alan Wilson and his patrol of thirty-four men. It was Burnham's attempt to save these men that made him known from Buluwayo to Cape Town. ...

— Real Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis

... anchor off Hobart after nightfall, the many bright lights of the city gladdening our eyes, while the babble of English tongues from the boats around us reminded us once more that, after so many thousands of additional miles since at Cape Town, we were ...

— Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne & Victoria • William Westgarth

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