Identifier: ourholidayinafri01whee (find matches)
Title: Our holiday in Africa
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Subjects: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Publisher: (St. Joseph, MO : Press of Combe Printing)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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made, to be exported from Cape Town. We passedthrough several dense forests where the trees were so thickthat they shut out the sun and sky from the roadway. Whenwe would come out in the open space between the forests wecould see for miles over the country dotted with homes builtin Dutch style, surrounded with well trimmed evergreen hedgesand fields of grape vines. It was certainly the most beautifuland picturesque drive that we have ever taken. At another time we went to Camps Bay on the tram cars.This is another most unique trip. On leaving Cape Townthe road climbs the mountain side to Kloofs Neck about athousand feet above the town. It is a pass between TableMountain and Lions Head. From this point the view is mag-nificent over city and bay. We proceeded along the mountainside on the back of Lions Head, gradually dropping downuntil we came to Camps Bay on the sea side. There are heretwelve small mountain peaks abo\e the sea shore called thetwelve apostles. 143 OUR HOLIDAY IX AFRICA
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CECIL JOHN RHODES We went out to see the home of the right Hon. CecilRhodes, called Groote Sluuir. It is an estate of several hun-dred acres, lying- on the side of the mountain, much of whichis covered by a forest of pine trees. The avenue leading to itis through a stately collonade of pines, nearly a hundred feetwide. The estate is laid out in gardens, has a high fenced past-ure for herds of animals, such as the South African buck, zebra,monkeys and other beasts, and houses built especially for them.The house is stately looking, built of white plaster and brickwith a fine veranda across the front. At his death it was willedto the Cape Colony government, to be occupied by the Premierof the Union of South African States. At present it is occu-pied by General Botha, of Boer War fame. At a high pointon the Rhodes estate is a Classical Monument of PhysicalEnergy, erected by the. nation to the memory of Mr. Rhodes.From there one has a view of Table Mountain and Devils Peakon one side, and

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