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Réné Hansard. The Cape Peninsula: Pen and Colour Sketches
The Cape Peninsula: Pen and Colour Sketches
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE CASTLE
CHAPTER II. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SOCIETY AND SLAVERY
Slaves
CHAPTER III. IN THE BLUE SHADOW OF TABLE MOUNTAIN
The Rhodes Memorial
CHAPTER IV 'PARADISE' AND THE BARNARDS
CHAPTER V. THE LIESBEEK RIVER
CHAPTER VI. THE BOSHEUVEL, OR HEN AND CHICKENS HILL
CHAPTER VII. THE CONSTANTIA VALLEY
CHAPTER VIII. THE MOUNTAIN
A Diary from Disa Head, Table Mountain
The Fir-woods at Disa Head
CHAPTER IX. ROUND THE LION'S HEAD AND THE VICTORIA ROAD
CHAPTER X. FALSE BAY
CHAPTER XI. THE BLUE SHADOW ACROSS THE FLATS
Footnote
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Réné Hansard
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Up Strand Street, which was the 'Beach Street,' lived all the high in the land, the Koopmans, or merchants—'a title,' says an old writer, 'that conferred rank at the Cape to which the military even aspired.' There they lived, in flat-roofed, high-stoeped houses with teak doors and small-paned glass windows, facing the sea; the men smoking, drinking and selling; the women eating, dressing and dancing. Not a decent school in the town, not a sign of a library, only a theatre whose productions bored them intolerably: 'Ach, foei toch, Mijnheer Cook,' says the lady with the smallest feet in all Kaapstad to the famous sailor Cook, who was the guest of her father, Mijnheer Le Roux, 'go to the theatre? to listen for three hours to a conversation?' Cook gave in, and, instead, was carried off in a big 'carosse,'[2] with a Malay coachman in large reed hat over his turban, pointed and with flowing ribbons at the side, to the Avenue in the Company's Gardens, a modest Vauxhall, and then on to one of the monthly dances given in the Castle by the Governor Van Plettenberg.
