My African Journey Quotes

“Cheap, swift, easy means of communication, the establishment of peace and order over land and sea, the ever-growing inter-dependence of all men and all countries upon one another, have given wings to Asiatic commercial ambition”
― Winston S. Churchill, My African Journey

“To wade and waddle through such country carrying a double-barrelled ·450 rifle, not on your shoulder, but in your hands for instant service, peering round every corner, suspecting every thorn-bush, for at least two hours, is not so pleasant as it sounds.”
― Winston, 1871-1947 Churchill, My African Journey

“Wadelai had been occupied by white men perhaps for fifty years. For half a century that feeble rush-light of modernity, of cigarettes, of newspapers, of 177 whisky and pickles, had burned on the lonely banks of the White Nile to encourage and beckon the pioneer and settler. None had followed.”
― Winston, 1871-1947 Churchill, My African Journey

“and rhinoceros swarmed.”
― Winston, 1871-1947 Churchill, My African Journey

“The groves which fringed and overhung the river swarmed with tsetse flies of newly-replenished venom and approved malignity,”
― Winston, 1871-1947 Churchill, My African Journey

“Parturiunt montes—out rushed two enormous wart-hogs. Let no one reproach the courage of the pig. These great fierce boars, driven from their last shelter, charged out in gallant style—tusks gleaming, tails perpendicular—and met a fate prepared for a king.”
― Winston, 1871-1947 Churchill, My African Journey