Quote#Homeland
After spending a week in Cape Town, finding that they overcharged me…
Quote byH. Rider Haggard · 1856–1925
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: King Solomon's Mines (1885), Chapter 1, "I Meet Sir Henry Curtis".
English (original)
After spending a week in Cape Town, finding that they overcharged me at the hotel, and having seen everything there was to see, including the botanical gardens, which seem to me likely to confer a great benefit on the country, and the new Houses of Parliament, which I expect will do nothing of the sort, I determined to go back to Natal.
— H. Rider Haggard
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