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...saw no more [islands] on trip and met only one steamer. [Shantz travel journal, July 30, 1919]

Arrived Cape Town 3:30 P.M. On the 13th land was in sight all day - a high mountainous coast - Table Mountain visible also. Most of the day marked by large Nereocystis in the sea. Gulls, occ[asional] albatross and many diving birds. Snow shows up on…

The first close view of the cape - shorelines had shut off view of the town. The table mt. forming an impressive amphitheater above the town. As we round[ed] the point the whole city came into view. A very pretty city - wonderfully located. [Shantz…

Granite rock with a great quantity of Nereocystis like alga in water. Returned to Capetown by the bay route. [Shantz travel journal, Aug 17, 1919]

Vineyard with an angle furrow through residual growth. (They do not plant but allow the natural growth to constitute the cover.) Soil rather dark - loam to sand - with granitic rocks finely powdered - looks rich. Erodium cicutarium called Goesbloem.…

A general view of the home with vines in fore. This home over 200 years old. At Wynberg we visited the vineyard and home of Henry Cloete - Alphen (farm). This fine old Dutch house with its floors of yellowwood and ceiling, and walls of teak from…

A vineyard of Kampoot [i.e., Hanepoot?]grapes - Table Mt. in back with plantings of Pinus, and occasional trees of Leucophyllum argenteum. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

Peaches, crimson ga[r?]land - with weed, green manure crop. This is the chief export peach. Mr. Cloete said that for one cargo of pears last season he received 2 s. per pear. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

Old home - Henry Cloete, Heller, Raven, Rust and Mally - with the ... car. Auto hire very expensive here, amounts to from 25 to 40 dollars a day! Gasoline about 90¢ a gallon. [Shantz travel journal, Aug. 18, 1919]

A grove 30 years old of Eucalyptus diversicula [i.e., diversicolor] or the Karri Gum. The photo shows a good stand with young trees starting up from below (Raven, Rust, Zohn). We then drove to Tokai, the forest station where trees from all over the…

The back door - entered by an old brick step - covered with an arch of Bougainvillea and English ivy.Groot Constantia - the government wine farm - named after Constance, wife of Adriaan van der Stel - contains 140,000 vines. The house, built in 1685,…