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De Mist, J.A. – Memorandum containing recommendations for the form and administration of government at the Cape of Good Hope, 1802

De Mist, J.A. – Memorandum containing recommendations for the form and administration of government at the Cape of Good Hope, 1802

admin2021-02-23T20:37:49+00:00July 25th, 1920|

This report by De Mist, prepared and completed in January 1802 in Amsterdam, recommends changes to be made to the government of the Cape during the critical years between the two British occupations. It also ranges widely over social, economic and political conditions of the Cape at the end of the 18th century.

Mentzel, O.F. – Life at the Cape in the mid-eighteenth century, being the biography of Rudolph Siegfried Allemann, Captain of the Military Forces at the Cape of Good Hope

Mentzel, O.F. – Life at the Cape in the mid-eighteenth century, being the biography of Rudolph Siegfried Allemann, Captain of the Military Forces at the Cape of Good Hope

admin2021-02-23T20:23:02+00:00July 25th, 1919|

This 'biography' of Allemann is, in fact, an entertaining account of social life at the Cape during the mid-18th century. The topics range from the structure of the military forces to the life of slaves, and the revolt of Etienne Barbier to shipwrecks and the financial prospects of young women.