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The southern tip of Africa in November: a high grey-brown rock headland with sheer seaward cliffs and scrub-covered slopes, a heavy blue-green swell, wind-torn spray streaming off the crests, a hard bright sky with fast broken cloud. all four vessels are heeled to the same side with their sails filled from the same quarter, running past the same headland. the store ship is at the tail of the same line, on the same swell as the others. the spray blowing off the swell crests runs in the same direction as the sails' draw. The headland's cliffs stand many times the height of the ships' mastheads; the store ship is visibly the smallest and deepest-laden of the four. It is 22 November 1497, the Cape of Good Hope: crew as small figures in short tunics and caps, indistinct at this distance; pitched oak planking, hemp cordage, heavy canvas, wrought iron fastenings; square-rigged carracks with high sterncastles and a lateen-rigged caravel; stern rudders and tillers.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "A navigational problem finally solved by a change of wind. 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