January 18, 1806. Nineteenth century dawned late in this landof the Southern hemisphere. Intellectual tastes 305 u OLD CAPE COLONY were not highly developed^ and at quite a latedate there was only one attempt at a libraryin Cape Town : a house near the church whichhad a few volumes looked after by… … LITTLE TERRACE AT TOKAI. Ekstein family, with its vine-trelhsed loggia,roofed bell tower, odd little terrace behind, wasprobably one of these later houses. The landwas first granted to Andreas Ranch by Rheniusin 1792, and to Petrus Michael Ekstein by SirJ. F. Craddock in 1814. Early writers speak…
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