I Have Many More 'humours' To Tell, But A- Can Show You All The
Long Story I Have Written.
I hope it does not seem very stale and
decies repetita.
All being new and curious to the eye here, one
becomes long-winded about mere trifles.
One small thing more. The first few shillings that a coloured
woman has to spend on her cottage go in - what do you think? - A
grand toilet table of worked muslin over pink, all set out with
little 'objets' - such as they are: if there is nothing else, there
is that here, as at Capetown, and all along to Simon's Bay. Now,
what is the use or comfort of a duchesse to a Hottentot family? I
shall never see those toilets again without thinking of Hottentots-
-what a baroque association of ideas! I intend, in a day or two,
to go over to 'Gnadenthal', the Moravian missionary station,
founded in 1736 - the 'bluhende Gemeinde von Hottentoten'. How
little did I think to see it, when we smiled at the phrase in old
Mr. Steinkopf's sermon years ago in London! The MISSIONARIZED
Hottentots are not, as it is said, thought well of - being even
tipsier than the rest; but I may see a full-blood one, and even a
true Bosjesman, which is worth a couple of hours' drive; and the
place is said to be beautiful.
This climate is evidently a styptic of great power, I shall write a
few lines to the Lancet about Caledon and its hot baths - 'Bad
Caledon', as the Germans at Houw Hoek call it.
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