fficials. Far from discouraging vessels from enteringthe ports, it was now the interest of the Company,whose profits were steadily diminishing, to inducestrangers of all sorts to stay at the Cape ; visitorswho bought the produce at high rates and were 262 FROM SEVENTEEN HUNDRED warmly welcomed by… … ZWAANSWIJK, BUILT I7II-I7. and the crowned lion of Holland. Simons Town,used since 1722 as a winter anchorage, becamealmost as important a haven for the ships as theCape itself and the society as cosmopolitan. Alarge hospital, a slaughter-house, and a few smalldwelling-houses lay round the bay ;…
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