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“One who at the age of twenty has only been in the pupilage of an old indifferent Kenyan schoolmaster cannot be expected to have had an edge for acquisition of the graces of literature, or an elegant style. I have put forth these verses as they came to me from the application of my understanding and my experiences albeit short-lived, not to back from a kind or an otherwise review.”

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The Princess Crown Land

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