Table Mountain (South Africa) - Dutch Formosa - Portuguese stuffed cabbages

 

I recently did 'Table Mountain' (a dreamy, feminine feel as it turns out) in an evening painting class and came across something else worth noting. 

'Table Mountain' (Tafelberg) South Africa was named in 1503 by a Portuguese navigator António de Saldanha, the first European to land in Table Bay.

'Table Mountain' (Taffelberch) Taiwan  - In 1634, Dutch were confronted by Taccariangh (strong, tall aborigines in the south of a Kaohsiung port near 'de Tafel') 

Tafel Bergh 

Source "From Whale Bone (Walvis Been) to Table Mountain (Taffelberch): the place naming of the Dutch on the landscapes of the seventeenth-century Taiwan" Peter Kang, Dong Hwa University.

'Mount Jade' (Yushan), previously known in English 'Mount Morrison'. (Mt Morrison mentioned in 1899 San Francisco Call)

Source Eine Reise in das Innere der Insel Formosa

und die erste Besteigung des Niitakayama (Mount Morrison) von Karl Theodor Stöpel  (translated by a Taiwanese medical profession based in Boston). 

A wonderful, detailed description of earlier Taiwan history HERE. 

(https://ting-tau.blogspot.com/2015/11/1.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR2cfSq37ziXLacM_RW0q0Xb7Lkt3t9hgEmCAmPKLJ4Fls6-5-XBZw_3Sak)

'Snowy Mount' (Xueshan Range), under the Qing, the range was also known as Dodd's or Mt Sylvia Range. (Dodd an English tea trader arrived in Taiwan in 1864) 

Source Map of William Campbell, 1896, London. 

A Taiwanese historian based in Boston kindly pointed to me upon seeing my recent Taipei Times article "In Southern Taiwan, a Portuguese name for Spanish mackerel?" about stuffed cabbage rolls.

That there is a thought or a possibility, not to exclude, about Portuguese introduced stuffed cabbage rolls (also) brought in by South Africa Black soldiers to Macao then Tainan in the 17th century. (Interesting tidbits! I would not have thought of!)

Cabbage 'cake' now known a South Hakka dish.