Yankee Girls in Zulu LandSheldon, Louise Vescelius
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Yankee Girls in Zulu Land
Sheldon, Louise Vescelius
South Africa -- Description and travel
We learned that the railroad to Kimberley had been finished. There is
now no limit to the ambition of the inhabitants of Port Elizabeth. On
the way to Cape Town we called at Mossel Bay, a picturesque little
seaport lying midway between Algoa and Table Bays. Georgetown,
thirty-six miles away, is the prettiest place in the Cape Colony. The
Kinyena Forest, which stretches away to the bay, is one of the few
really large forests in South Africa. In it elephants and rhinoceri
still roam, and buffaloes, leopards, and every variety of antelope are
found, while from its thickets come most of the hard-wood lumber used
for the wagon-making districts of the colony.
After six days' steaming from Durban we put into Cape Town docks, and
the mighty Table Mountain once more frowned down on us. We wandered for
the last time through the town. We called on many of the acquaintances
we had made on our first arrival in the country. We had been followed
with much interest on our travels.
How our journeys came back to us, and the many happy months passed in
South Africa as we saw the purple cloud we knew was the last glimpse we
should have of Table Mountain or South Africa slowly fading away. The
voyage to England resembled all other similar voyages in its pleasurable
monotony.
At last, after five years' almost incessant travel, we arrived in
Southampton with the satisfactory feeling that we had accomplished the
object of our voyage. Our expedition to the Antipodes in search of
health was a success. Our invalid was returning home a healthy, happy,
contented wife. What was there for us to ask for more?
We left the ship at Southampton and went on by rail, and soon the
familiar smoky fog which overhangs the monster London received us.
Here our journey ends, for London and New York nowadays are only "across
the way."
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