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MRS. DUNDAS, as the wife of one of the Chief Commissioners (in the Kilimanjaro district), has had special opportunities for studying native problems on the spot, and these opportunities she has used to the utmost. It is admirable the ease with which she adapts herself to novel surroundings, making the best of everything, seeing something of interest in every place and object, whether at home or on the march. This is no small achievement when one considers the multitude of discomforts which have to be contended with in the climate of equatorial Africa; yet with a mind so active and so fully occupied with all that is going on around her, she is fortunate in having little time to dwell on these matters. Her sympathy with the inhabitants, and her power of expressing, in clear and pleasant language, the results of her observations and the conclusions she has come to, add a charm which is not often found in a book of this description. Existing and prospective officials, whose fate it may be to govern primitive races, could not do better than study closely what she has to say.
Beneath African Glaciers: the Humours, Tragedies, and Demands of an East African Government Station as experienced by an Official's Wife; with some Personal Views on Native Life and Customs.
By Anne Dundas. Pp. 238 + 28 plates. (London: H. F. and G. Witherby, 1924.) 12s. 6d. net.
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C., H. Beneath African Glaciers: the Humours, Tragedies, and Demands of an East African Government Station as experienced by an Official's Wife; with some Personal Views on Native Life and Customs . Nature 115, 453 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115453a0
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