I do not like to think too much on this Africa. It is too large and too empty, ” he said. “People like De Buys, they astonish me with their courage — or perhaps it is a lack in them; they cannot imagine. I think that is one way to be not afraid: in a covered wagon looking at the piece of the horizon your mind can hold, and do not suffer thoughts about endless lands and unknowable things. Claire Robertson
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