H. Rider Haggard Quote

After spending a week in Cape Town, finding that they overcharged me at the hotel, and having seen everything there was to see, including the botanical gardens, which seem to me likely to confer a great benefit on the country, and the new Houses of Parliament, which I expect will do nothing of the sort, I determined to go back to Natal.

Chapter 1, "I Meet Sir Henry Curtis" - King Solomon's Mines (1885)