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Kampala, like Rome, is built on seven hills. There are Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, a glittering white mosque and a Hindu temple, each on its separate hilltop. Makerere College, the university of East Africa, occupies hill No. 5; on the sixth live 2,000 Britons, communing-or so it...
At best, the British in Africa seek slowly to guide what Kipling called their "new-caught, sullen peoples'' across the blur of centuries that divides them from the modern world. At worst, British settlers expect to live, at least until the deluge, off the sweat, tears and ignorance...
Long before Darwin made the same claim for the whole human race, the fierce Dafia tribesmen of India's northeast frontier were proudly claiming descent from monkeys. To prove it, they wore false tails, swung happily among tree branches, screeched wildly in apelike imitation of Kipling's Bandar...
He grew reminiscent. "I notice that the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize was Mr. Rudyard Kipling, and that another equally rewarded was Mr. Bernard Shaw... I knew them both quite well, and my thought was much more in accord with Mr. Rudyard Kipling. On the other hand, Mr...
¶ Kipling also believed that there was ambiguity in the phrase "he could not ... eat with the mess"; he therefore altered "mess" to "alien" in later editions. Editor Maugham's version was set from early editions.- ED.