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

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Wednesday August16 proved to be a great day. We started early to see the "flower market" the flowers are nearly all wild and were numerous in variety and beautiful in color. The sellers were colored people, old and young, presenting every possible shade from white to black with Sudian and Malay mixtures often apparent. It was a pretty and unique sight. It was immediately in front of the Standard Bank, where we all repaired with our letters of credit, for in this country, the shillings chase the pounds out of ones pocket book, and the "tickys"

as the thrippence is called chase the chillings

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These are too highly colored as a whole but there is not variety enough to represent the wonders of the flowers. The first is best.

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Another view

Some sights in the streets of Cape Town

[Possibly different handwriting?] The picture was of S. African cattle

16 25 The next week to see the Exhibit of South African Artists which was so surprisingly good that I wanted half the collection. As I wanted a souvenir of S. A. I bought a picture of Alice Glossup's clearly the best there for which I paid £21 After lunch we hastened to the Museum and I hastened home again to be there at 3 when Mrs. Murray, President of the Enfranchisement League and Mrs. Besset callled. We had tea and talked of the question of S. African Auxiliaryship. They left at five and Miss Cameron and I started for a jaunt to the Kloof which Mrs. Murray said we could take before dinner. We picked up Mrs. Boersma] en route. We did not realize when we started that we were going on the famous trip around the mountain. We went to Camps Bay where we stopped 20 minutes. We were so enchanted that Miss Cameron and I went again on Friday afternoon. I will save the views to represent our Friday trip.

Thursday morning, we went shopping and I bought a rug, my roll having been lost upon arrival and turning up at Johannesburg. Miss Cameron bought ostrich feathers. In the afternoon the Board of officers of the Citizens took tea with me and after discussion agreed to send a delegate to Durban. We had a picture