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- 28 May 1900
No. 2 General Hospital, Wynberg, Cape Colony. His painting of sunrise over Cape Town. The elegant Mount Nelson Hotel. Military orders. Ugly locals. Disembarkation. Wynberg is a beautiful place. In No. 2 Hospital galvanised iron huts are replacing tents. 1300 patients there, mostly with enteric fever or dysentery. Fine facilities. Rumours of an impending move north. He now has charge of the Convalescent Division, which is 'no joke' with over 560 patients. Living in a bell tent with ingenious camp furniture. The discomforts of a wild storm. The local English Church is nice - an excellent Sunday sermon from the vicar, a Cambridge man.