Walfish Bay
Americannoun
noun
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From this vast territory we must exclude the only port on the coast, Walfish Bay, which with a little tract of land around it belongs to Cape Colony.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.
A line drawn from Port Elizabeth north-west across the Karroo in the direction of Walfish Bay roughly divides the regions of the winter and summer rains.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
From Walfish Bay there are tracks which lead inland to a mission station in Damaraland.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.
On reaching Walfish Bay, we safely embarked the valuable produce we had collected.
From Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Near Walfish Bay the clear tracks of elephants may still be seen,—and there has not been an elephant in the vicinity for upwards of half a century.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
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