Cape Town Mission Field 

    17 November 2018
 Day 343
Saturday 


This morning we went in to the Cape Town Market to pick up some fruit for next week's transfers. The market is open on Saturday from 3:00 am to 8:00 am. We found out that there were no banana's, they come in on Monday. We did get some onions and bell peppers for some boerwors (beef sausages) that we will cook up on Thursday for those missionaries going home (5 of them). We will receive 6 new missionaries on Tuesday and there will be 30 missionaries changing location on Wednesday, many flying to and from the East Cape.
While we were at the office cutting up the onions and peppers we had and elderly couple ring the bell to get through the gate. They greeted us and informed us that they were staying next door at the Protea Hotel and noticed the sign on the gate. They are the DeMordant's from Idaho Falls on vacation here with their son. It turns out that they were the Mission President in the Johannesburg mission the same time as the Craddock's who were serving as Mission President in the Cape Town mission. They pointed them out to us on the hallway pictures where all the prior Mission Presidents pictures are hung. They were a sweet couple and it was a real treat to be their when they stopped by.
Afterwards we drove downtown to the Cape Hope Castle which is a fortification built back in the 1600's. It was near the beach back then but the city reclaimed much of the harbor during the growth here and it is now a good half mile away from the beach. It has massive walls and is in the shape of a pentagon. We walked the perimeter wall where cannons were placed at each corner. We toured the three museums and the armory and prison and torture chamber. Amazing enough there were never any battles at the fortification, even during all the transitions between the Dutch, French, and English.
The DeMordant's, prior Johannesburg Mission President from Idaho Falls


Crime Doesn't Pay (?)
Fountain and Bathing Area reproduced to match early drawings and sketches found
Lady Ann Barnard was the society leader near 1800 when her husband served as colonial secretary to Governor MacCartney, the governor under the first British occupation

One of many paintings, mostly by Baine, this one depicting the Dutch East India (VOC) trading company ships in Table harbor

Roof top view



Prison Door Carvings


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