The Man Who Did the Right Thing a Romance of East Africa
The Man Who Did the Right Thing a Romance of East Africa
Sir Harry Johnston
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' " Yours, " Godfrey Dewburn. " 156 THE MAN WHO DID THE RIGHT THING In consequence of these instructions you can picture such events as these occurring at the end of September, 1888. Lucy Baines, attended by Josiah Briggs's wife Halima, was taking the air on the outskirts of Hangodi. She had had a baby in the previous July, and was still weak and anaemic. The confinement had been a diffi- cult one, as it was a little premature, owing to Lucy having been frightened by a hyena. A medical mission ...ary had been in hurried attendance, and kind Mrs. Stott had come fifty miles to act as an amateur midwife. But the child died soon after its birth, and Lucy, for the first fortnight, had been delirious. If her child had lived her whole outlook might have changed and brightened. As it was John had rigged up a kind of machila — I can't explain a second time what a machila is — a compromise between a palanquin and a hammock — and this could be taken out on short journeys by two strong porters.
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