Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. THE CAPE PENINSULA [Illustration: CAPE TOWN FROM TABLE BAY] THE CAPE PENINSULA PEN AND COLOUR SKETCHES DESCRIBED BY RÉNÉ JUTA PAINTED BY W. WESTHOFEN LONDON: ADAM & CHARLES BLACK CAPE TOWN: J. C. JUTA & CO. 1910 DEDICATION 'Only those who see take off their shoes. The rest sit round and pluck blackberries and stain their faces with the natural hue of them.' * * * * * 'I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and find it hard to believe. The names, the shapes of the woodlands, the courses of the roads and rivers, the prehistoric footsteps of man still distinctly traceable up hill and down dale, the mills and the ruins, the ponds and the ferries, perhaps the Standing Stone or the Druidic Circle on the heath; here is an inexhaustible fund of interest for any man with eyes to see or twopence worth of imagination to understand with.' R. L. STEVENSON. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE CASTLE 1 II. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SOCIETY AND SLAVERY 15 III. IN THE BLUE SHADOW OF TABLE MOUNTAIN 30 IV. 'PARADISE' AND THE BARNARDS 46 V. THE LIESBEEK RIVER 53 VI. THE BOSHEUVEL, OR HEN AND CHICKENS HILL 62 VII. THE CONSTANTIA VALLEY 73 VIII. THE MOUNTAIN 78 IX. ROUND THE LION'S HEAD AND THE VICTORIA ROAD 92 X. FALSE BAY 100 XI. THE BLUE SHADOW ACROSS THE FLATS 110 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Cape Town from Table Bay (_Frontispiece_) FACING PAGE 2. On the Ramparts of the old Castle (moonlight) 5 3. Table Bay from the Kloof Nek 17 4. Blaauwberg and Head of Table Bay 32 5. Tigerberg and Diep River 34 6. Blue Hydrangeas at Groote Schuur 41 7. The Blue Shadow--View from Rhodes's Monument 45 8. The Southern Part of False Bay, with Cape Hangclip 47 9. Oak Avenue, Newlands 59 10. Silver Trees and Wild Geraniums 62 11. Fir Avenue--'Alphen' 72 12. Constantia Valley and False Bay, with Cape Point 78 13. A Sunset on the Lions Head: Effect of South-east Wind 88