Word: kikuyu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner table within hearing of a hotel orchestra-not so easy when one can catch far off, as it were, the challenge of the ageless cataracts of life and death thundering forever in the dark places of the world. In one passage, Mr, Powys recounts talking with a Kikuyu who asked him solemnly if he were aware that elephants had once been men: "He looked so serious when he asked the question that, on my soul, I was half inclined to believe him. I tell you in that darkening forest with the rustling of the tropical leaves about...