CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

The Cape of Good Hope in 1853

The Sea Serpent crossed from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.

They passed the Cape of Good Hope

on November 5, 1853.

LOCATION

The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland

on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.

The Cape of Good Hope is not the southernmost point of Africa.

WHAT IS?

If a ship is going north along the western side of the African coastline

the Cape of Good Hope marks the point where a ship begins to travel

more westward than northward.

NIGHT SKY

The stars and planets must have been magnificent!

Sarah’s Description
Bayard Taylor’s Description

TABLE MOUNTAIN

Both Sarah and Bayard Taylor described seeing Table Mountain (Rock)

as they passed the Cape of Good Hope.

Sarah’s Description
Bayard Taylor’s Description

As Bayard Taylor said,

they finally felt that they were truly headed

Home to America!