Dutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
… from the bay, it loomed huge above the shore like "a stone wall out of the earth that thundering cannon cannot destroy" … were erected inside the pentagon courtyard and a dividing wall ("De Kat") across it. Governor van Der Stel had dwellings, store-rooms and barracks built beside this wall including a house for the secunde and fine new …