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The only result of this voyage of circumnavigation was to strike out the name of Isle Tristan from the program of search . As John Mangles intended to put in at the Cape of Good Hope for coals , he was obliged to deviate a little from the 37th parallel , and go two degrees north . In less than six days he cleared the thirteen hundred miles which separate the point of Africa from Tristan d'Acunha , and on the 24th of November , at 3 P. M. the Table Mountain was sighted . At eight o'clock they entered the bay , and cast anchor in the port of Cape Town . They sailed away next morning at daybreak . Between the Cape and Amsterdam Island there is a distance of 2,900 miles , but with a good sea and favoring breeze , this was only a ten day 's voyage . The elements were now no longer at war with the travelers , as on their journey across the Pampas -- air and water seemed in league to help them forward .