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rocky promontory now incorporated in subsequent dockyard land reclamations. Apart from a few thatched houses,
Fig. 3.12: Simon’s Town from Cole Point (C D’Oyly, watercolour, 1833, CAR). Sir Charles was one of countless
consistent white-walled and flat-roofed townscape. On the left on the hill Hospital Terrace; the triple-storey right
including Goede Gift homestead high up the slope (cp. De Jong!), Simon’s Town has acquired a wonderfully
visitors fascinated by the sea-side settlement. Here he shows himself at work painting on Cole Point, a small
all these still there. of the thatched roof is the house now known as Bayview, on the extreme right the Methodist church –
