n, takenfrom an old water-colour, of the gate of Govern-ment House in the beginning of the nineteenthcentury. A suggestion was made, I am told 303 OLD CAPE COLONY —with what correctness I do not know—by Mr.J. Hofmeyer, of restoring it, but the plan hasnot been carried out. Beyond the gate is… … STELLENBERG GATE. out as Governor; he who gave to the two portsof Table and False Bay the poetic title of Hostsof the Indian Ocean Tavern. He lived atStellenberg, the beautiful eighteenth centuryhouse at Wynberg, at the back of which onceran the track or thoroughfare from Cape Town 304 MEN AND…
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