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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Kikuyu He wandered around in the bush in khaki shorts and sola topee diligently recording the people’s activities in his notebooks oblivious to his surroundings. Watching him the Kikuyu decided urgent measures were needed to save him from being eaten by lions. They made him an amulet. This consisted of a number of powders blessed by the medicine man with incantations of ‘bad beasts do not harm me’ and tied in a little package of rags. The usual obscure ritual was amended slightly at Mr Routledge’s request to ensure that he had a chance to shoot the lion before it ran awa As instructed by the medicine man Mr Routledge carried the small roll on white rags in his pocket at all times. It protected him most successfully am not one lion even so much as took a nip at him. Similar success was recorded in the 1920s in the case of an Albanian wh visited London for a month. Presuming the country to be much the same home he took his usual precaution of wearing a piece of meteorite as an amulet round his neck to protect him from gunfire. In the entire month once was he shot at. (SP)