toepand a great hall. Gabled like the houses of thefatherland, it resembles the Dutch farm houseson the island of Walcheren, houses with interiorslike those of Pieter de Hooghs pictures, designed, 54 SIMON VAN DER STEL some say, with a reminiscence of the Malay Archi-pelago, yet not entirely like… … GKOOT CONSTANTIA, 1685. mountain slopes, who cleared a space for hisvines and his gabled house amongst the wildgeraniums, the gladioli, and the lihes. Yet whata place it is to dream in ! Below lies False Bay,and the wonderful brilliance of its sandy shores;behind, the steep pass of the Nek and…
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