Walfish Bay
Americannoun
noun
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Farther north on the same coast is Walfish Bay, the only port through which access can be had to Great Namaqualand and Damaraland.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam
S. latitude to Cape Frio, excepting Walfish Bay, had been placed under the protection of the German emperor.''
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Approached from the sea the principal port is Walfish Bay, a fair harbor that was improved by the British when they occupied it.
From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Francis Andrew March
Walfish Bay, a dependency of Cape Colony, in the middle of the coast-line of German South-West Africa.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
I clung on to it, and was picked up a day or two afterwards by a vessel which had to touch at Walfish Bay on her way to the Cape.
From In the Wilds of Africa by Alfred Pearse
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