"Auf dem Cap" - curious notation in Wurtemberg family register

Question

Just found a very strange annotation in a page of the Family Register of Unterturkheim, Wurttemberg. It seems to say "Auf dem Cap", which means very little to me. The annotation occurs twice on this page; the first time it is crossed out and replaced by the comment "verschollen", which also occurs in other places. It seems that the four brothers covered by these annotations left the parish to go to the "Cap" and were never heard from again.

What could this "Cap" be? My immediate association was the Cape of Good Hope, but this does not seem to make a whole lot of sense. The entry would have occurred in the early 1800s, when Wurttemberg was an autonomous, land-locked kingdom and almost surely not in the business of colonising southern Africa. What else could be going on here?

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Answer 1

in the early 1800s  a lot of young people left the region because of bad weather, bad harvests and hunger.

They went for emigration, most to US, but also to south Africa. May be the Cap was there.

Question could be asked to Stuttgarter Zeitung, local editors.