The capadors stepped forth and flared their capes, but he refused to charge upon them.
But he charged always the flung capes and committed no harm.
It will, therefore, be readily understood that Archibald's inability to do a hole in single figures did not handicap him at
Cape Pleasant as it might have done at St.
south of
Cape Horn, the net was put astern several times; it never, however, brought up anything besides a few of two extremely minute species of Entomostraca.
It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the
Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.
This ignorant, unconscious fearlessness of his made him a little waggish in the matter of whales; he followed these fish for the fun of it; and a three years' voyage round
Cape Horn was only a jolly joke that lasted that length of time.
The 6th of July, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extremity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sailors gave the name of their native town,
Cape Horn.
Cape City lying at the foot of an amphitheatre of hills, could be distinguished through the ship's glasses, and soon the Resolute cast anchor in the port.
She got up to rouse herself, and slipped off her plaid and the
cape of her warm dress.
On the following day, the ship having drifted near the land, anchored in fourteen fathoms water, to the northward of the long peninsula or promontory which forms the north side of the entrance, and is called
Cape Disappointment.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at
Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth, Anno.
