...[At] the Cape, if you wish to be a favourite with the fair, as the custom is, you must in your own defence (if I may use the expression) grapple the lady, and paw her in a manner that does not partake in the least ofgentleness. Such a rough and uncouth conduct, together with a kiss ravished now and then in the most public manner and situations, is not only pleasing to the fair one, but even to her parents, if present; and is considered by all parties as an act of the greatest gallantry and gaiety.
Cape Town women
Been listening to a reading of 1788 by David Hill and thought this description of Cape Town by the First Fleet's surgeon, John White, was somewhat ominous in the extreme light of South Africa's reported rape:
