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neighborhood of Cape Town. This is near one of the suburbs, 

 you can see some of the houses over there. 



Another part of the Table Mountains is the Twelve 

 Apostles. You can see several of the twelve. It should be 

 thirteen Apostles, I think ; but I suppose there are not 

 thirteen apostles. 



One of the most magnificent sea views to be had in the 

 world, one of the finest landscapes I ever saw, is to be had 

 there. You can see the grand rocks there carved by the 

 ocean, which is very interesting. One of the things that 

 especially interest rae is mountains ; one of the things we 

 always undertake to do is to climb the mountain. I want that 

 picture to be shown however, for this reason, that that was the 

 way in which I climbed the mountain. I did not climb these 

 walls here, but came through this ravine. There are only a 

 verp few places where you can ascend the mountain. You can 

 take an exceedingly steep path through this ravine, and then 

 a very curious wind bears down upon you. At the time I was 

 there, I was most desirous of seeing the wind blow from the 

 east and dip down through the ravine. The mountain is 

 3500 feet high, and the wind has quite a fall over the edge of 

 the cliff. Coming over the ravine with a heavy wind pushing 

 one down, pressing down on your shoulders and driving you 

 downwards, it is a constant struggle to climb upwards. It 

 was misty at the edges. A view or two will give you a better 

 idea of this. There is a more distant point of the Table 

 Mountain. You see the table-cloth on it. When the wind 

 is blowing in a certain direction, you see the wind is blowing 

 up to a higher level and sometimes causes it to hang over a 

 little, just as the table-cloth hangs over the table. 



There you have the city looking very handsome below 

 you, you see the splendid stretch of yellow beach where the 

 sand has been tossed and the great rollers rush in upon the 

 shore. 



This is a picture from one of the supurbs of Cape Town, 

 where the darkies live very largely, although there are people 

 to be found of almost any color. You can get everything 



