Word: zululand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only outlying properties to escape damage were the Botanical Gardens at Soledad, Cuba hit by all previous hurricanes, and the Astronomical Observatory in Zululand, Orange Free State, Africa...
...even has the zone a zyme; But is the sceptics Zululand...
Lord Allenby brought his military reputation through the War with less damage than most of his peers. Born of an untitled Yorkshire family, he entered the Army after flunking Indian Civil Service examinations. Having proved himself a cool, competent bush fighter in Bechuanaland, Zululand and the Boer War, he was a major general in command of all British cavalry by 1914. Flanders was no place for horsemen. His career was nearly wrecked by the slaughter of his cavalry at the battle of Arras in 1917. Two months later he was sent to see what he could do about the situation...
Close to extinction except in a Zululand preserve and along the Upper Nile is the white (actually grey) rhinoceros. Only elephants are bigger than this creature. As long as 15 ft., very fast, agile and ferocious when angry, its charge is usually impotent because of its poor eyesight. Connoisseurs call the meat delicious...
Ever since a huge hippopotamus waddled 500 miles from its natural habitat in Zululand and dropped amicably in upon a town-councillors' meeting at Port St. Johns, and into a hotel lobby at Durban. South Africa (TIME, May 5, 1930), that hippo has been an arch hippo, worshipped by the natives as a god, protected by local legislation throughout the Union. Somebody dubbed it "Hubert" and the name was accepted by all uninquisitive South African citizens...