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When the Cape Colony
was first incorporated with the Empire, it
was pronounced “a bauble, unworthy of
thanks.” Yet before the Suez Canal and
the Waghorn overland route to India, the
Cape, as commanding our road to India,
Australia, and China, had a special importance.