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Early youth | |
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I run away to sea on a fishing-boat | |
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Hardships of the life | |
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Take service on a tugboat | |
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Life on board a tramp | |
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First view of tropical African coast | |
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A collision at sea | |
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Land at Durban, 1895 | |
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I work my way up-country to Matabeleland | |
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Employed as fireman on an engine | |
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Reach Johannesburg | |
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Trek the rest of the way to Bulawayo on foot | |
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Take service in the Matabeleland Mounted Police | |
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Join the Africander Corps engaged in putting down the rebellion | |
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Go into trade in Bulawayo | |
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Return to the coast | |
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I take to the stage | |
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Work my way on an Arab dhow to Mombasa, February, 1898 | |
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Cool official reception | |
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1898: Determine to organize a transport caravan on the Uganda Railway route, to carry provisions for the coolies working on the railway | |
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Man-eating lions at railway construction camps | |
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Reach the borderland of the Masai and Kikuyu tribes | |
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Desertion of my men | |
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Return to Railhead | |
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Start out again with convoys for Uganda | |
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Loss of my transport animals | |
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Decide to enter the Kikuyu country | |
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Government official tries to prevent me going into the Kikuyu country | |
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Give the official the slip | |
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My first acquaintance with the Kikuyu | |
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Meet Karuri, the Kikuyu chief | |
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Hospitable reception | |
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Kikuyu village attacked because of my presence in it | |
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I help to beat off the attack | |
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Successful trading | |
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Build a house in the Kikuyu village | |
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Native theory as to the origin of the Kikuyu race | |
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I help defend my Kikuyu friends from hostile raids, and beat off the enemy | |
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Benefit of my conciliatory counsels | |
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Pigasangi and blood brotherhood | |
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Am established in the country | |
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Native festivities and dances | |
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Troubadours | |
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Musical quickness of the natives | |
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Dearth of musical instruments | |
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My attempts at military organization | |
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Hostile rumours | |
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Preparations for resisting attack | |
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Great battle and defeat of the attacking tribes | |
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Victory due to skilful tactics of my Kikuyu force | |
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Succeed in taking a large convoy of provisions into the starving Government stations | |
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White men attacked and killed | |
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Am supreme in the tribe | |
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Native poisons | |
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Although I am supplying the Government stations with food, I get no recognition at the hands of the officials | |
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Determine to extend my operations into more remote districts of the Kikuyu country | |
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New friends | |
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Native taste for tea | |
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Plague of ants | |
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Curious superstition with regard to milking cows | |
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The Kalyera reject my friendly overtures | |
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Trouble at headquarters | |
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Tragic interview with a recalcitrant chief | |
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Gain further prestige thereby | |
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Further plans | |
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Take my Kikuyu followers down to Mombasa | |
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Their impressions in contact with civilization | |
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Back again in the Kikuyu country | |
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Kalyera raid | |
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Effect of a mule on the native nerve | |
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Does it eat men? | |
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Prepare for a new expedition | |
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Dress my men in khaki, and march under the Union Jack | |
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A hostile medicine man | |
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Around Mount Kenia | |
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Native drinks | |
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Treacherous native attack on my camp | |
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Lucky capture of the hostile chief saves the camp | |
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Pursuit after stolen cattle | |
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Another attack on my camp | |
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Change of attitude of natives on account of rain | |
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Peace again | |
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Bury my ivory | |
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The forest slopes of Mount Kenia | |
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Wagombi's | |
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A powerful chief | |
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Precautions | |
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Establish myself and erect a fort | |
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The Wanderobo | |
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Visit from the Wanderobo chief | |
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Native bartering | |
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A grand meeting of surrounding tribes for blood brotherhood under my auspices | |
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Dancing frenzy | |
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Native ideas of a future life | |
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Again trek for the unknown | |
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Attacked by natives | |
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Chief's admonition | |
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Decide to visit the Wanderobo chief Olomondo | |
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Wanderobo gluttony | |
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The honey bird | |
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Wanderobo methods of hunting | |
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Massacre of a Goanese safari | |
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My narrow escape | |
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General uprising of hostile tribes | |
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Rise of the Chinga tribes against me | |
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My precarious position | |
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Successful sally and total defeat of the enemy | |
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My blood brother, the Kikuyu chieftain, comes to my aid with thousands of armed men | |
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Total extinction of the Chinga people | |
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My control over the whole country is now complete | |
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Get back with my ivory to Karuri's | |
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Recover all the property of the murdered Goanese | |
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My position recognized by all the chiefs | |
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Violent death of my enemy, the rainmaker | |
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Peaceful rule | |
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Try to improve the agriculture of the country | |
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Imitators of my schemes cause trouble in the country | |
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Troubles of a ruler | |
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Outbreak of smallpox | |
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Famine | |
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My attempts at alleviating the distress misunderstood | |
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Daily routine in a native village | |
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"Sin vomiting" | |
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Native customs | |
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Native hospitality among themselves | |
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Adventures with lions | |
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Government send an expedition into my country to take over the administration | |
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Go with my followers to meet the Government officials | |
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Am asked to disarm my followers by the Government officials | |
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Consent to this, and am then put under arrest | |
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Am charged with "dacoity" | |
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Am sent down to Mombasa to be tried, and placed in the gaol | |
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Am released on bail | |
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Tried and acquitted | |
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I am appointed intelligence officer and guide to a Government expedition into the Kalyera country | |
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Origin of the Kikuya | |
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The family | |
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Circumcision | |
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Marriage | |
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Land tenure | |
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Missionaries | |