This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...men" and Frans van der Stel. No doubt some houses have been lost sight of by reason of the confiscation of property held by the Company's officers at the time of the van der Stel exile. Jacobus de Wet, the cellar-master, would have been obliged to relinquish his farm on the Liesbeeck River. Possibly it was the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...men" and Frans van der Stel. No doubt some houses have been lost sight of by reason of the confiscation of property held by the Company's officers at the time of the van der Stel exile. Jacobus de Wet, the cellar-master, would have been obliged to relinquish his farm on the Liesbeeck River. Possibly it was the interesting house Valkenberg: gabled, with walls and gates like the earliest homesteads; named too, evidently, after Commissioner Valkenier, which he, as a Company's officer, could have done. More land at "Tiger Vlei, in the Cape district," was granted him by Governor Willem in 1704; it must, I think, have been near by. Willem ten Damme had a modest enough farm at Oliphants Kop in the Koeberg; you may see it any day on the road to Malmesbury, under the shelter of an odd-shaped little hill. Fiscal Blesius, though he was accused of receiving bribes from the Governor's friends, seems to have escaped without reprimand, and there is no mention of his farm at Simon's Vallei passing away from him. The homestead, called after the elder van der Stel who granted it, was one of the most considerable of the time. "Together with the house of Huising," said Governor Willem, it "was larger and higher" than his own. The long white walls are spread out with a kind of grandeur on the stretch of land between Klapmuts and the kopje of Babylons Toren, or Tower, and show what a large space was enclosed, though they now encircle an altered and modernized house. Captain Olof Bergh had bought the old Company's station of the Kuylen across the flats (Kuils River). It was sold in 1701, together with "Elsjes Kraal and a good large shed," and considered to be "about four hours from the Castle." Elsjes Kraal is about twelve mi...
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