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CHAPTER 11. 



CAPE COLONY. 



Scenery and climate of Cape Town — Public Buildings — The 

 Government House, Xatural History Museum, and Public 

 Library — Adderley Street — The sea prospect from C;ipe 

 Town — Eivalry of Port Elizabeth — The inhabitants and 

 environs of Cape Town — Dutch and English in the 

 colony— Mr. Cecil Ehodes— The Transvaal War of 1881— 

 Majuba Hill — Capo Politics — The South African States — 

 Cape Town as a Coaling Station — Defences of the Cape — 

 Forts at Simon's Bay — Fort Wynyard — General Cameron 

 and the Cape Town Garrison. 



Hie terrarum mihi praeter omnes 

 Angulua ridet, ubi non Hymetto 

 Mella decedunt viridique certat 



Bacca Venafro ; 

 Yer ubi longum tepidasque prsebet 

 Jupiter brumas, et amicus Anion 

 Fertili Eaccho nimium Falernis 



Invidet uvis. 



Foe beauty of scenery and general excellence of 

 climate Cape Town approaches perfection. In- 

 habited by some 50,000 souls, it reposes at the 

 foot of the great Table Mountain, sheltered though 

 not oppressed by towering and precipitous granite 

 masses. Possessing and proud of a history going- 

 back over a period of upwards of 250 years, the 

 town itself shows few if any signs of antiquity. 

 The traveller might often imagine from its strag- 

 gling and unfinished appearance that he had 



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