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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 74

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Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede Tot DrakensteinLord of Myurecht. SIMON VAN DER STEL and making the wine ; but one is glad to havea description of the leaguers or butts in whichthe wine was kept, all in his day elegantlycarved, the bung-holes covered with brass plates, … OLD BATH, GROOT CONSTANTIA. hasped down and locked, so that none of theslaves might embezzle the wine. Relics of the old time are scanty, but thereis a broken sun-dial with the half-effaced nameof Cloete, and the cannon-balls piled on thegateposts of the lower vineyard are said to havebeen…

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