Excerpt from A Little Journey to South Africa and Up the East Coast About the time that Rip Van Winkle began his long nap in Sleepy Hollow, one of his countrymen was busy making a legend for South Africa. It was then the Flying Dutchman started out on the longest voyage in history. This was the period of Dutchen terprise and venture. The sea was dotted with the vessels of the merchants of. Amsterdam. Not only were they building a city at the mouth of the Hud son, but they were the most prosperous colonists of India and its islands. At the Cape of Good Hope the Dutch East India Company ruled supreme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.