xx Union Of South Africa

Subcall, out there beyond the thin blue line where sky and sea meat are distant lands, strange ports, exotic people, out there lie mystery, romance, the lore of the far away.

Come, let's visit them. Join us as we head for ports of call. Our steamer sails south of the equator, into seas lit by the southern cross. We skirt the west coast of Africa, past the steaming jungles of the Gold Coast, past the sprawling many-mouthed Congo, south and still further south to the Cape of Good Hope.

The Union of South Africa is our port of call. The Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost tip of Africa. Here east and west meet, as the monsoon-driven waves of the Indian Ocean spend the last of their fury and dying struggle with the turbulent waters of the Atlantic.

the Cape of Good Hope, a friendly port to centuries of treasure-seeking mariners, today the gateway to South Africa. Here at the Cape, the early navigators bound these for the wealth of the Indies, bound safe anchorage in Table Bay, and here in 1652, landed a party of colonists led by Jan van Rebech to establish the first settlement in South Africa as a supply station for the

merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company. The ancient Dutch houses arose beneath the cloud-capped top of table-mountain. Sturdy Dutch burgers plated corn and grapes, and traded for cattle with the natives. And the little community came to be known as the tavern of the seas, where the weary seafarer might pause on his journey half around the world and put aboard fresh water and provisions.

Here under warm southern skies, brown-headed Dutch boys and apple-cheeked Dutch girls dance the dances of the Netherlands, while dusky bewildered hottentots looked on in aboriginal amazement. In a century and a half, the broad belts and the bright son of South Africa had wrought many changes in the Dutch settlers, broadening their shoulders, heightening their stature, developing a new race of boars or farmers. From the narrow