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having long yellow hatchet faces, curious noses of sorts, 
yellow whites to their eyes, and are said to have no livers, 
whence I suppose the bile is deposited elsewhere, in the 
face, eyes, etc., and even so much as to affect their tempers, 
for some are hypochondriac and others highly irritable ; 
they are gregarious, and frequently live in boarding houses. 
. . . Baron Ludwig ^ received me with the greatest kindness 
and wished me to stay at his house, which I declined, not 
seeing any occasion to trouble him, and having a great deal 
of shopping to do, which I wished to effect in the cool of 
the evening, when he would expect me to sit at home. I 
breakfasted and lunched there, however. His house is one 
of the best in Cape To^vn, with a noble drawing-room, 
handsomely fmiiished with two busts of his noble self, one 
of the late Baroness and one of the poet Schiller. My 
Father's picture used to hang there before, but was not now, 
and of com'se I did not ask for it. He, my Father, has given 
way to William of Wiirtemberg, who so graciously showered 
down the crosses and snuff-box on him of Cape Town, which 
emblems you may remember in the Crescent. I found 
* Peter Schlemihl ' in his Library and could not help reading 
part of it for old acquaintance sake ; it was the very copy 
•my Grandfather gave him ; tell this to the dear old man 
and how many associations and thoughts of him it brought 
up ; his own handwriting ascribing it to Chamisso was on 
the title page. I think I was more pleased to have found 
that book of my dear Grandfather's than wdth anything 
else in Cape Town ; I had a great mind to steal it. 
It has struck me very forcibly during both my visits 
to the Cape, that there is in the Colony a most remarkable 
want of a love for flowers, which I always thought so 
pecuharly a Dutch taste, but so it is. Look here, the only 
Eucalypti and Casuarinas I have anywhere seen, are in 
Ludwig's garden ; but though they are planted by him for 
1 Baron C. F. H. von Ludwig {ca. 1784-1847), Ph.D., chemist and botanist, 
left his native Wurtemberg in 1804 for the Cape, where he founded a Botanic 
Garden, Ludwigsburg, and became Vice-President of the South African 
Literary and Scientific Institute, and a member of the Cape Association for 
Exploring Central Africa. He was a correspondent of Sir William Hooker, 
who, in dedicating to him the 62nd vol. of the Botanical Magazine in 1835, 
made special mention of the rare and beautiful plants wath which he had 
enriched Europe, and called him the Friend and Patron of Botany. He 
visited Great Britain in 1836-7. 
