In sy boek wat in 1990 deur Human & Rousseau gepubliseer is, vertel Jose Burman op bladsy 90: 

The second half of that day's (Monday 21 May 1798) journey Lady Anne dismisses almost as cursorily: 

"We left these good people and passed nothing worth marking down, heath and hill being all, enlivened by a few partridges, till we arrived at the house of Jacob Conradi where we slept."

It was not difficult to discover that Jacobus Conradie had been located at Klaas Voogds, but finding the farm, let alone the house, was another matter. The area is stiff with Conradies, but none of those I spoke to knew where the original farmhouse was situated, or had heard of Jacobus.

I thought I had found the homestead when I saw Fraai Uitsig, the home of Mr Reynolds. This was formerly the farm Boplaas belonging to the Kriel family, and gave evidence of age in the thick walls and layout of a former T-shaped house. I was referred to Mr Manie Kriel (the former owner) in Robertson. He assured me it had always been a "Kriel house", and produced an old diagram of the farm to prove it. But in the diagram, I read that "the land forms part of the quitrent grant in favour of Jacobus Conradie dated 15 April 1815, and of the freehold grant to Hendrik van der Merwe dated 9 May 1754".

I learnt that Hendrik van der Merwe, to whom the freehold grant had been made, had been succeeded by his son in 1772. When the son died, his widow married Jacobus Conradie who obtained additional land at Klaas Voogds. Whilst researching Jacobus Conradie I found in the Archives that in 1791 he had taken over the Zandvliet aan de Cogmans Rivier farm from the Nel family. This posed the question whether Jacobus Conradie had not perhaps entertained Lady Anne at Zandvliet, a question which is not easy to answer since Zandvliet has been heavily subdivided, and there is no old farmhouse left. However, Mr Barnard, owner of one of the portions of Zandvliet, gave me the probable answer when he said that the road of those days would have been closer to the mountains, and Zandvliet would have been off that road.

All in all I incline to the belief that Lady Anne slept at Klaas Voogds, and I became convinced of this when I traced the old Klaas Voogds farmhouse to the farm of Mr "Nakie" Smit. There were only two buildings on the farm - a renovated farmhouse and another behind it with a flat Georgian pediment and the date 1881. I learnt, to my regret, that the original farmhouse of Lady Anne's day had been demolished.

Fortunately a description of it remains, for it was seen by Dr Mary Cook and is described in Fransen & Cook (Early Buildings at the Cape). Apparently it was a long rectangular building with a kitchen at one end, followed by a livingroom and bedroom, and a wagon-house.

It was here that Lady Anne awakened on the morning of Tuesday 22 May 1798. It was a homely house:

"When we dressed ourselves and got into the next room we found Mr Barnard making his toilette in the corner, and busily talking Dutch with the young vrows, who had attended him through all the manoeuvrings of a tidy man's morning ablutions. A toothbrush they had never seen before, nor indeed anything else almost, combs excepted. I went into the kitchen - the roof was hung as full of dried meat of different kinds as the Drup Kelder was of petrifactions, but chiefly of mutton and buck . . . Whatever I looked at or mentioned the two good-natured strange girls brought me with unaffected generosity. I had given them some of my stores  - they could not in return heap enough on me, I even saw they had secreted dried  buck and sausages in the wagon, because I had praised them..."

After breakfast the Barnards left:

"We now got into our wagon, after giving them a cordial invitation to the Castle, and proceeded on our journey... "