A Tavern of the Ocean: Being a Social and Historical Sketch of Cape Town from Its Earliest Days |
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Adderley Street appointed arrived ashore barracks Barry bastion battery beach became beer brick building built burghers Cape Town Castle cattle centre century Church club Colony coloured Commander Company's Council Court door Dutch Reformed Church entrance erected Europeans False Bay farmers feet fire freemen French fresh garden Government Governor gracht Grand total ground guns Heerengracht Holland hospital Hottentots Hout Bay hundred inhabitants Kapenaars Kloof kraal Lady land later Leerdam lodging Lord Somerset morning Muizenberg night o'clock obtained officers opened Parade possessed pound quarters ramparts redoubt residence Riebeeck rix-dollars road Robben Island roof sailors Salt River Sea Point sent servants settlement ships side Signal Hill Simon's Town slaves sold soldiers South Africa Square Stel stoep stone stood supply Table Bay tavern thatched Thibault took trade trees tronk troops vessels visitors walls wine wood wooden Wynberg