Hello everybody welcome back to another episode of catch grimless this one written by

Emma read by me wife nurse mother murderer the crimes of Daisy Malca

the chifform out of the show if you're brand new here first of all welcome is that

Emma has written me this for me I've never never read it before. Let's kind of what I do. I once

spend several days learning what I could about the War of the Roses, the Tudors, the

stewards, and the houses of Hanover and the Tudors, the Stuarts, and the

baby race that led to Princess Alexander of Kent becoming Queen Victoria.

Yeah, I remember studying this in primary school, early secondary school, something like that.

War of the roses, big part of the curriculum when I was a kid.

And since I started working for Simon, I've also learned way more than I need to do about the

U.S.'s founding fathers and that

had been a long time ago.

That must have been a long time ago.

A few years ago, I started reading the diary of Jan Van Riebeek. He was an official in Dutch East India

trading company and he was responsible for setting up the Cape of Good Hope trading post in April

1665 which effectively kicked off the colonization of South Africa.

His diary provides the reader with an insight into the hardships that South Africa's first white

settlers had to face, documents the customs and traditions of the three Cooganan tribes who lived in the area and points out how

trade with the Kojian was instrumental in the colony's survival.

My knowledge of the next two centuries is spotty, but it involved the Cape colony belonging to the

Dutch, the British, the British again. Ah yes, the colonial times. There were several wars

between the colony and members of the Kosian who realized that the white man had come to stay and wanted

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