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The written history of the Cape Colony in what is now South Africa began when Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias became the first modern European to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.[1] In 1497, Vasco da Gama sailed along the whole coast of South Africa on his way to India, landed at St Helena Bay for 8 days, and made a detailed description[2] of the area. The Portuguese, attracted by the riches of Asia, made no permanent settlement at the Cape Colony. However, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) settled the area as a location where vessels could restock water and provisions.
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^Morison, Samuel Eliot (1942). Admiral of the Ocean Sea A Life of Christopher Columbus. Boston: Little, Brown And Company. pp. 75–76.
^da Gama, Vasco. "Round Africa to India". Internet History Sourcebooks Project. Fordham University. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
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