Household Words (1850-1859)
Cape Sketches, Household Words: A Weekly Journal (no. 33) November 9, 1850
Written by a South African farmer, this essay dispenses information about the natural conditions and economics of farming in the Cape colony. It includes hints to the prospective settler, such as: "There is one comfort wherewith every intending emigrant should provide himself. He may be sure that he will take nothing else with him so valuable to him in every sense. . . . [H]e will find this the most valuable of all his possessions-a Wife!"
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