Carrie Chapman Catt - Diaries, Europe, South Africa, August 2 - November 15, 1911 (Box 1, Folder 1)

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We then took a walk about the town and I paid for the picture I had bought. In the picture appended there are old slave quarters and under the one shown the last sale of slaves took place, about 130 years ago.

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We were then shown the Houses of Parliament and the Supreme Court where Judge or Sir James Rose Innes was presiding. I append his house where we had taken lunch

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Here we found Cape Carts - a carriage of two seats on one pair of wheels and drove along the beach over a good road to Miller's point. Fields of barley almost reaching the beach, a most unusual combination, interested us. We picked up some shells on the beach and had tea in a house belonging to Mrs. Murray's brother. It was unoccupied, but there was a little furniture and provision for heating water. The chief dish was a delicious sponge cake made from an ostrich egg.