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Excerpt from The Cape as I Found It
Henrietta, Of Kimberley. These I joined, and so I set forth to see the world. I think I quite fancied myself a person out of a fairy tale, and, to keep up the illusion, perhaps I ought to say something about my parents and my family. As far as I can find out, my ancestors, as in the story, were poor and humble folk; but, unfortunately, they were never poor enough nor humble enough to be in any way interesting, so there is nothing more to tell about them. And as for adventures, I'm afraid I cannot boast of having had any all the time I was away, although I was on the look-out for them. I had no exciting experiences. I always got food to eat in the daytime, and a bed to sleep on at night, and these without any difficulty, so I was not even thrilled by the ordinary emotions of hunger and sleeplessness. In fact, looking back now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
