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From the tangled, blue fastness of the Aberdare Mountains, a Mau Mau leader named Simba ("The Lion") wrote last week to a white settler: "I have just returned from a course for brigadiers in Abyssinia, and have under my command one division of 12,000 men, 400 machine guns, 300 Bren guns, 100 Sten guns, 10,000 rifles and 40 mortars . . . I could wipe out 50 battalions . . ." Next day, with a band of hand-picked warriors, he struck hard at the settler's estate...
...dark context of Kenya's bushfire "emergency," this was a mere border skirmish. But Simba, a wily, war-scarred veteran with at least one shattered police post to his credit, chose to lead the raid in person...
Beyond these first 100 pages Osa Johnson's story is more familiar; in their famed animal films (Simba...
...rhinoceros; how a carrying case had to be invented for porcupines; how leather boots had to be made for a young elephant with weak ankles. And from the fund of experience laid up during 38 years at the zoo, Dr. Ditmars recalls the time a lion named Simba missed his birthday party because day before he had painted himself pea green by rolling around in his freshly painted cell. Once there was a seal (not from the zoo) loose on nearby Pelham Parkway, and they went out and captured him to add to the collection. And once a shipment...
...Martin Johnson have made many a film about wild places. Their most famed was Simba, a lion story that lost some interest because of its specialization. Now the Johnsons point their telescopic lenses at a variety of things. They start in the Solomon Islands, watching the cowardly headhunters launching a war-canoe inlaid with mother-of-pearl. In the New Hebrides a tribe is burying some old men alive; in the Big Numbers Territory some monkey men with prehensile feet peer wildly out of the trees. The Johnsons gave a movie show of Charlie Chaplin for King Nagapate's cannibals...