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‘Uncle’ Charles Bulpett, a wild Englishman who had been everywhere and done everything before washing up in middle age on the shores of Nairobi. As a young man in the 1880s he had once wagered £100 to £25 that he could swim the Thames at Greenwich in frock coat, top hat and cane. He eventually reached the opposite bank, having been carried a mile and a quarter downstream by the tide, and immediately offered to repeat the trip in reverse for the same bet. There were no takers.
They were the sort of men who would gallop into battle with the reins between their teeth and their brains between their legs.
