Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 328William Blackwood, 1980 |
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Page 72
... Kenya . Nellie Grant , portrayed skilfully in Mrs Huxley's ninety - page introduction , comes immediately and sharply into focus through her letters . She was courageous , optimistic and humorous . Like many European women in Africa ...
... Kenya . Nellie Grant , portrayed skilfully in Mrs Huxley's ninety - page introduction , comes immediately and sharply into focus through her letters . She was courageous , optimistic and humorous . Like many European women in Africa ...
Page 226
... Kenya , in the months after Uhuru , there was on a smaller scale the same atmosphere of insecurity , doubt about the Government's intentions , labour unrest , bursts of anti - white racialism , and occasion- al Mau Mau type murders ...
... Kenya , in the months after Uhuru , there was on a smaller scale the same atmosphere of insecurity , doubt about the Government's intentions , labour unrest , bursts of anti - white racialism , and occasion- al Mau Mau type murders ...
Page 259
... Kenya border and back . In Africa , he still wears the old sandals he had made by a native cobbler , when those he was wearing fell to pieces at the border . After half a century of walking , his cartilages , as he puts it , ' wore out ...
... Kenya border and back . In Africa , he still wears the old sandals he had made by a native cobbler , when those he was wearing fell to pieces at the border . After half a century of walking , his cartilages , as he puts it , ' wore out ...
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