It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike … - Mary Kingsley

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You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island. ” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.

Mary Kingsley

It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

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the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean.

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West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

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the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally. . . taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.

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I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

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There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

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