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Identifier: diaryoftourinsou00agat
Title: Diary of a tour in South Africa
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Agate, W. (William), 1857-
Subjects: South Africa — Description and travel 1900-1950 Zimbabwe — Description and travel
Publisher: Paisley : [s.n.]
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bathe, although it 176 Diary of a Tour in South Africa. looks very enticing ; the presence of a strayshark or two is not uncommon hereabouts.Simons Town, being on the Indian Oceanside of the Cape Peninsula, its tempting waters,we understand, are never considered safe fromthe presence of these fishy horrors. But at this moment we are more concernedwith our own domestic arrangements, as thereis a fiendish row on in our kitchen. The littlecoloured imp who assists Monsieur le Chef inthat department, has again got tolerably drunk,presumably on the balance of the proceeds ofhis nefarious Kimberley bottle transaction, andMons. le Chef has kicked his bibulous assistantout of the car, and thrown after him all hisworldly belongings wrapt up in a colouredhandkerchief of very moderate dimensions.At the present moment the Rev. AugusteSoles, that is the youths name, sits enthronedupon a heap of ashes. This is no place for the life story of Auguste INDIAN OCEAN. FROM SCHUMACffKRS KOP,PORT ELIZABETH.

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Diary of a Tour in South Africa. 177 Soles, but a few phases of it that touched ourown lives, may be of interest to the student ofcoloured humanity. He started with us onour travels, to all appearances a simple, little,one-eyed Kaffir boy. His tastes were said tobe simple, and we were told that at night (asno bed had been provided for him) he wouldmake himself quite comfortable on the kitchenfloor. But that little black Soul soared tohigher things, and the second night out he wasdiscovered asleep in the seats of the mighty.Somehow or other the Laird seemed from thefirst to have a suspicion, that our young friendmight find a softer spot to sleep on than thekitchen floor, and sometime during that secondnight out he got up to have a tour of inspec-tion. On entering the dining-room, he sawspread out a dirty hat, coat, and waistcoat onthe dining table, and that little black depositoryof millions of fleas actually asleep on his, theLairds own particular seat! As far as we 178 Diary of a Tou

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