RUMMAGING through my mum’s bookshelf while in South Africa recently, I found a book titled Life at the Cape By a Lady, first published around 1870. The lady in question was Louisa Ross, my great-great-grandmother, wife of Dr William Ross, surgeon to the leper colony on Robben Island.
Inside was the story of Louisa’s grand excursion on Table Mountain. “Ah me! How tired I
