Making their wagons ready: "We have yet no established government here and do not know for certain either how the land or natives will be disposed of..." Charlotte suffers some from having left Cape Town before she was ready; the baby does well. Living without a wife, with a native girl doing household work for him and living rough. Starting for Umvoti, a distance of about one hundred miles, "a lonely road with only a native for my company."
Authors
- Collection
- Aldin Grout Papers
- Format
- Correspondence
- Pages
- 3 p.
- Place Discussed
- South Africa
- Provider
- Digital Commonwealth
- Published in
- South Africa
- Reference
- Local other: mums797-b01-f17-i004
- Rights
- Contact host institution for more information. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries.
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/ab324a9b9de844ca5f3ceb8326a6c2b2