St Helena and the Cape of Good Hope or incidents in missionary life of Rev James M'Gregor Bertram

2009. Soft cover. 128 pages. Good, clean condition. Under 1kg.

"To those who have heard, from the lips of the Rev James M'Gregor Bertram, of St Helena, the particulars of his missionary experience at Table and Saldanha Bays, in the South of Africa, and on the Island of St Helena, no apology need be offered for the publication of this memoir. It has been written, in compliance with frequent and pressing solicitations on the part of his many hearers, who regard his statements as worth of more than the fleeting publicity of a pulpit address, and who desire some lasting memorial of a visit, which they will ever remember with pleasure." - Preface.

It contains "a most interesting description of Cape Town . which says, 'The habitations . so low and so quaint, with their gables to the streets, covered with whitewash and adornded with venetians, each with its stoop or porch before it after the manner of the old Knickerbockers, seemed exceedingly odd. The small window-panes, and singular sign-boards, and the absence of shop windows, had a singular effect.' " - Mendelssohn, p.119.