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Old Cape Colony; a chronicle of her men and houses from 1652-1806 (1903)

Trotter, Alys Fane (Keatinge), Mrs · Westminster : A. Constable & co., ltd. · leaf 36

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lonialwork. They stand on the grounds of the modernGroote Schuur, in the shadows of the mountainbehind. When they were built, lions and leopardslurked not far off amongst the rocks and crevasses ;wild cats from the great forest of undergrowth 28 TABLE BAY SETTLEMENT around made nightly depredations… … OLD RUSTENBERG SUMMER HOUSE. moving over the plain, and in the squelching poolsof the low-lying ground wallowed many a hippo-potamus. Yet more than one old Companysman has sat on those seats and gazed at theclear blue of the sky and the far-off outline of theunchanging mountains as you and I may do…

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