and the best workmen had been employed, and thedraught oxen of the burghers, requisitioned forcarrying the materials, had died of fatigue. OldGovernor Simon had unjustly acquired grazingland on the Steenberg beyond Constantia, to theexclusion of all other burghers. Frans van der 114 THE YOUNGER VAN… … PAREL VALLEI. We know that the mountain at the Cape lyingbetween Riebeecks Casteel and the Koeberg wasnamed Paardeberg on account of the zebras.Koeberg was named from the hippopotami, which 115 OLD CAPE COLONY the settlers wrongly called zeekoe or seacows.From Paarde Vlei the waters of False Bay…
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