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Prester John

CHAPTER VII
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He must come of high stock, for he is a fine figure of a man.
'Very soon I found it was no good following him in his excursions into civilization.

There he was merely the educated Kaffir; a great pet of missionary societies, and a favourite speaker at Church meetings.

You will find evidence given by him in Blue-Books on native affairs, and he counted many members of Parliament at home among his correspondents.

I let that side go, and resolved to dog him when on his evangelizing tours in the back-veld.
'For six months I stuck to him like a leech.

I am pretty good at disguises, and he never knew who was the broken-down old Kaffir who squatted in the dirt at the edge of the crowd when he spoke, or the half-caste who called him "Sir" and drove his Cape-cart.


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