I Am Persuaded That Capetown Is Not Healthy; Indeed, The Town Can't
Be, From Its Stench And Dirt; But I Believe The Whole Seashore Is
More Or Less Bad, Compared To The Upper Plateaux, Of Which I Know
Only The First.
I should have gone back to Paarl, only that ships
come and go within twenty-four hours, so one has the pleasure of
living in constant expectation, with packed trunks, wondering when
one shall get away.
A clever Mr. M-, who has lived ALL OVER India,
and is going back to Singapore, with his wife and child, are now in
the house; and some very pleasant Jews, bound for British
Caffraria - one of them has a lovely little wife and three children.
She is very full of Prince Albert's death, and says there was not a
dry eye in the synagogues in London, which were all hung with black
on the day of his funeral, and prayer went on the whole day. 'THE
PEOPLE mourned for him as much as for Hezekiah; and, indeed, he
deserved it a great deal better,' was her rather unorthodox
conclusion. These colonial Jews are a new 'Erscheinung' to me.
They have the features of their race, but many of their
peculiarities are gone. Mr. L-, who is very handsome and
gentlemanly, eats ham and patronises a good breed of pigs on the
'model farm' on which he spends his money. He is (he says) a
thorough Jew in faith, and evidently in charitable works; but he
wants to say his prayers in English and not to 'dress himself up'
in a veil and phylacteries for the purpose; and he and his wife
talk of England as 'home', and care as much for Jerusalem as their
neighbours.
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