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great men of history, and Tilly, but not possessions, governments, nor the practical necessities of everyday life.

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The chameleon, apparently, had been entrusted by God with an important message for the first man, who was living somewhere near Mount Kenya.

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I cherished my baby crocodile, and kept it for several years until it was eaten by a puppy.

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Now we must rest the bones of the old year as well as wishing strength for the new. Let’s have the bottle, Jack, and wish Mrs Nimmo the best of health and happiness, and her good man also, and God bless all our friends and damnation to our enemies.’

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from outside came that familiar overture to the African morning: the swish-swish, swish-swish of a twig broom sweeping the path gently and rhythmically,

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let’s ride up the ridge and you shall tell me who lives where, and what sort of animals you’d turn them into if you had been apprenticed to a witch who knew how.’

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the whole concept of a man sitting on a beast was wild and strange.

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‘I suppose we were all like that once,’ Lettice interrupted hastily, ‘going about in woad and making human sacrifices, until the Romans came. It seems odd to think that we were civilized by Italians.’

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It had become a fashion among the younger men (set I think by the Cole brothers, Berkeley and Galbraith) to wear round their shoulders one of the light, fine woollen shawls affected by the Somalis, and Ian had

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The Crawfurds’ furrow started in one of these open glades, and the things I principally remember were the scent of jasmine, and the butterflies. A strong-smelling species of jasmine grew in this forest for the most part invisibly, but now and then you would see a cluster of tiny white stars gleaming from the dark, knotted undergrowth. Its scent blended in an exciting way with the musky, fat-and-ochre smell of the spectators, and in the background was the dry smell of wiry grass, with a faint undertone of aromatic cedar.