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On the 16t of February 1713, the Bennebroek which was an 'East Indiaman'- which is a large sailing vessel. This type of sailing vessel's were built from in the 16th to the 19th Century for the trade between Europe and Southern Asia. The first were Portuguese and Dutch vessel's. English Indiamen appeared late in the 16th Century and eventually came to dominate the trade. The ships varied in size from about 400 to 1,500 tons and more; often they were larger than Men-of-war vessel's. The Man-O-War is a naval ship that was designed for combat and not for merchant service.

Hamburg is a small Town, with about 1000 inhabitants, in the Eastern Cape Province. It is located on the coast between the East London and the Town of Port Alfred. It falls under the Ngqushwa Municipality.

Ubuhlebezwe Municipality is a local Municipality within the Harry Gwala District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Ubuhlebezwe is an isiZulu word meaning: "the beauty of the land".

Emgwenya means: 'Place of the Crocodile'. (Ngwenya, is an Nguni surname, meaning the same thing!) Emgwenya was formally Waterval Boven and can be found at the top of the Escarpment (as its original name of Waterval Boven suggests- this in Afrikaans means: 'above'- above the Elands River Waterfall.) The 75m Eland Falls is best seen from viewing platform just outside the Town.

Interwoven in the Hills near Machadodorp in South Africa’s: 'Mpumalanga Province'. It is a labyrinth of circular stone walls and linear pathways. Known as the Blaauboschkraal stone ruins, such is the mystery that shrouds them that very little can be stated for certain. Theories as to who created them and when are both abundant and extraordinarily diverse, with proposed dates of the latter differing by tens or even Hundreds of Thousands of Years.