Belongings

Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa

An Exploration of Frontiers, 1725–c. 1830

Laura J. Mitchell

 

Fig. 8.5. The Road Caabwaards

Passage through the landscape from the Olifants River region toward Cape Town was arduous in the eighteenth century. Travel is much easier today, as this gravel road picks a sure path through the undulations of the Cedarberg vegetation. (Of course, driving on the tarred national highway is even easier.)

L. J. Mitchell

Passage through the landscape from the Olifants River region toward Cape Town was arduous in the eighteenth century. Travel is much easier today, as this gravel road picks a sure path through the undulations of the Cedarberg vegetation. (Of course, driving on the tarred national highway is even easier.)