Agulhas

On the thirtieth, we made the most southern land of Africa, being cape Agulhas.

Or thirty miles, if we exclude the five days wasted in a vain effort to stem the Agulhas current (see p. 15).

Cape Agulhas, not far distant, is the real extremity of South Africa.

One of these lonely towers stands more than eight hundred feet above the sea-level, and warns ships off the terrible Agulhas Bank.