Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0653
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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope
against the violence of the SE winds which at some seasons of the year come down from the Table mountain with incredible violence
[Margin note] Inhabitants
Of the Inhabitants a far larger proportion are real Dutch than of those of Batavia But as the whole town in a manner is supported by entertaining & supplying strangers each man in some degree imitates the manners & customs of the Nation with which he is cheifly concernd the Ladies however do not follow their husbands in this particular but so true are they to the customs of fatherland that scarce one of them will stir without a Sooterkin or Chaufett ready to place under her feet whenever she shall set down the Younger ones tho in general do not put any fire in them but seem to use them merely for shew, in general they are hansome with clear skins & high Complexions & when married (no reflextions upon my countrey women are the best housekepers imaginable