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The first merinos reach the Cape

1789 · regional

Six Spanish merinos - two rams and four ewes - given to Col. Robert Jacob Gordon and kept pure at Groenkloof. The animal that would pay for every farm in this history arrives three years after the root ancestor is born.

Sources

Merino sheep and the ostrich feather boom in the Cape merinosa.co.za; southafrica.co.za (Oudtshoorn ostrich industry)

Told in

mentioned Eighty-one thousand morgen