Excerpt from Records of South-Eastern Africa, Vol. 9: Collected in Various Libraries and Archive Departments in Europe There is also a fort on the main of eight or ten guns directly Opposite the Grand Fort, the distance across is about a mile and a half. The Grand Fort is sufficiently large for one hundred guns, and has I reckon about thirty that would bear on a ship as she rounded the N. E. Point of the island. I was told most of their gun carriages were bad, and for want of shot they had substituted stone ones, which are too soft to be serviceable. 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.