A sporting life in Africa
Apr 22, 2020
2 minutes
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When Joseph Thomson ventured into my ranching district of Laikipia, north of Mount Kenya, in 1883, he encountered a landscape populated by Maasai, who decided to murder him.
The wily Scotsman survived by declaring he was a wizard. He removed his false teeth and offered to do the same to a young man’s nose. He made cold water “boil” by mixing up some Eno salts and, after consulting his calendar, he
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