[137] Eloline sailed from Cape Town to Hondeklip Bay under Captain Sinclair.
[138] Hondeklip Bay.
[139] Hondeklip Bay.
[140] William Latham : Trader, clerk, fisherman, farmer. He came from England to Walvis Bay in a guano ship via Ichaboe Island c. 1845 and hired out to Dixon at Sandfontein as bookkeeper and general assistant.
[141] Frederick Joseph Green (1829 – 1876) : Hunter, trader, explorer, partisan leader. Early in 1854 he left Ngami and trekked to Hereroland and Walvis Bay. See “Pioneers of South West Africa & Ngamiland”
page 45. Green married Stewardson’s daughter.
[142] Lake Ngami published in 1856 in London, England.
[143] Rev. Carl Hugo Hahn (1818 – 1895) : Missionary, trader, colonizer, Herero linguist.
[144] Rev. Johannes Rath (1816 – 1903) : Missionary.
Lees hier oor die dagboek van Jane Latham (neé Dixon), 'n dogter van een van my voorouers, Benjamin Dixon, my ma, Dinah Dixon, se oor-oupagrootjie - sy was dus die 5de geslag. Die boek gaan oor hul "groot trek" na Walvisbaai in Suidwes-Afrika (Namibië). Hul reis met ossewaens het van 1843 tot 1844 plaasgevind. Omswerwinge tussen Walvisbaai en die Kaap het nog tot ongeveer 1861 geduur. Wat 'n ongelooflike voorreg om te weet wat in die lewens van my voorouers, 170 jaar gelede, gebeur het!
The Latham-Diary
Read here about the diary of Jane Latham (nee Dixon), daughter of one of my forebears, Benjamin Dixon, my mother, Dinah Dixon's great-great-grandfather - she was thus the 5th generation. The diary is about their "great trek" to Walvisbay in Southwest-Africa (Namibia). Their trek with ox wagons took place between 1843 and 1844. Roaming between Walvisbay and the Cape continued until about 1861. What a wonderful privilege to know what happened in the lives of my forebears, 170 years ago!
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