I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.
One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they gi… - Mary Kingsley
One immense old lady has a family of lively young crocodiles running over her, evidently playing like a lot of kittens. The heavy musky smell they gi…
- Mary Kingsley
If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do not pay it the least attention, ne… - Mary Kingsley
If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do not pay it the least attention, ne…
I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible. - Mary Kingsley
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 ...… - Mary Kingsley
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 ...…
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 ci… - Mary Kingsley
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 ci…
[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him. - Mary Kingsley
[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.
West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with - Mary Kingsley
West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with
It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me. - 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.
It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes … - Mary Kingsley
It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes …
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