Walfish Bay

"I've heard men speak of de Costa from Sierra Leone to Walfish Bay, and never once have I heard anything said that was good."

She did not, and in the summer of 1884 Bismarck decided no longer to await her pleasure, and the south-west coast of Africa from the frontier of the Portuguese possessions to the Orange river, with the exception of Walfish Bay, was taken under German protection.

Of rivers running direct to the Atlantic the Little Fish river enters the sea at Angra Pequena and the Kuisip in Walfish Bay.

There is regular steamship communication between Hamburg and Swakopmund, Walfish Bay and L�deritz Bay.

Then I recalled having read in Francis Galton’s book that he shot a springbuck weighing a hundred and sixty pounds near Walfish Bay.