landowners. The visitor of I 702 was impressed by the Stellenbosch settle-
ment: "It is incredible how by the zeal of the Dutch this place has grown
with fine dwellings, and how great a treasure of wine and grain is grown
here every year."13
Gradations of status and wealth in the white population were infinite.
The company paid meticulous regard to rank. The governors, with numer-
ous perquisites plus a salary of two hundred guilders a month, lived in a
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