CHAPTER II. 
RESIDENCE IN CAPE TOWN, AND RAMBLES IN THE VICINITY. 
I HAD brought with me letters of introduction to the Governor, to 
the Colonial Secretary, and to several English families; and had, 
above four vears and a half before, been so fortunate as to become 
Explanation of the Vignette, representing a part of the Castle, viewed from the west, or 
on the side towards the town. This subject has been selected chiefly for the purpose of 
showing the principal outlet from Cape Town. It is through this Gateway that most of 
the waggons from the distant districts of the colony pass and repass. The road turns 
round under the bastion on the left, on the other side of which it leads through the outer 
gate ; and a little farther on, through the lines, it conducts either to Rondebosch and Si- 
mon^ s Town, or to Salt River, and the rest of the colony. The only other outlet is to the 
right, by a road without the Castle. The whole fortification is surrounded by a moat ; 
this is not showii in the engraving, because it is seen only on a near approach. A number 
of tents are pitched by the road-side, for the daily sale of fruit and vegetables, and are 
kept by free Malays and slaves. About three inches farther on the left of this drawing, 
and on this side of the castle, commences ihejutty, part of which is given in the preceding 
vignette ; consequently, the objects here delineated are some of the first which meet the 
eye of a stranger on his landing. 
This subject, and that of the jutty, were drawn in the year 1815, and are taken out 
of a j^onoramic series of drawings, representing Cape Town and the whole of the sur- 
rounding scenery, as viewed from an elevated station at the beginning of Strand Street. 
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