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He went from
Graham’s Town
to
Kimberley
, and from
Kimberley
to
Khama’s Country
,
and from
Khama’s Country
he went east by north, eating
melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the
great grey-green, greasy
Limpopo River
, all set about
with fever-trees, precisely as
Kolokolo Bird
had
said.
Now you must know and understand,
O Best Beloved, that till that
very week, and day, and hour,
and minute, this ‘satiable
Elephant’s Child
had
never seen a
Crocodile
,
and did not know what
one was like. It was all his
‘satiable curtiosity.
