Under the cape
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 13 21:28:16 CDT 2001
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/resunact/schools/vergeleg.htm
Historical documents suggest that Vergelegen was originally intended to
be a
VOC outpost and not the splendidly huge estate that Willem Adriaan Van
der
Stel turned it into. A modest outpost had been set up at the foot of
the
Hottentots Holland Mountains to monitor the cattle smuggling that was
taking
place between the freeburghers of the Cape and the Khoikhoi living on
the
other side of the mountains.
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