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    1. The document discusses four black and white photographs from Nigel Pavitt's book about early days in Kenya. 2. The first photo shows the devastating locust swarms of 1932, while the second depicts freed slaves who had been brought to HMS London, indicating the start date for anti-slavery patrols of 1874-1884. 3. A third photo shows an expedition up Mount Kenya led by geographer MacKinder, which was sponsored by Campbell-Hausberg, a discovery Pavitt found intriguing. 4. The final photo portrays an early sailing dhow with a distinctive square sail, which Pavitt sees as reminiscent of Chinese junks, leaving him to wonder if there was early Chinese

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    1. The document discusses four black and white photographs from Nigel Pavitt's book about early days in Kenya. 2. The first photo shows the devastating locust swarms of 1932, while the second depicts freed slaves who had been brought to HMS London, indicating the start date for anti-slavery patrols of 1874-1884. 3. A third photo shows an expedition up Mount Kenya led by geographer MacKinder, which was sponsored by Campbell-Hausberg, a discovery Pavitt found intriguing. 4. The final photo portrays an early sailing dhow with a distinctive square sail, which Pavitt sees as reminiscent of Chinese junks, leaving him to wonder if there was early Chinese

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    1. The document discusses four black and white photographs from Nigel Pavitt's book about early days in Kenya. 2. The first photo shows the devastating locust swarms of 1932, while the second depicts freed slaves who had been brought to HMS London, indicating the start date for anti-slavery patrols of 1874-1884. 3. A third photo shows an expedition up Mount Kenya led by geographer MacKinder, which was sponsored by Campbell-Hausberg, a discovery Pavitt found intriguing. 4. The final photo portrays an early sailing dhow with a distinctive square sail, which Pavitt sees as reminiscent of Chinese junks, leaving him to wonder if there was early Chinese

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    NAIROBI STAR Tuesday, 27 January 2009 LIFESTYLE 21

    TRIBUTE TO
    EARLY DAYS
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    NIGEL PAVITT ON SOME OF HIS FAVOURITE PHOTOS FROM THE BOOK


    1. “I think this is a very special photo. It tells a story children who had been taken off these slave dhows, two Italian alpine guides with him.”
    of how awful the locusts were. 1932 was probably and I presume the Arabs on the left who look pretty 4. “This is a very special photograph. First of all, it’s one
    the very worst time. We forget about it because dejected and stern were the slavemasters.” of the best photographs I’ve seen of sailing dau la
    these days there are hardly any locusts, or nothing mtepe – the square, matting sail of early dhows that
    compared to what it was.” 3. “I love this photograph, both because of the history were built at the Coast and in Lamu, and they went
    it shows and the finding of it. I don’t think it’s ever out of use in the early 1920s.
    2. “This photo enabled me to set a fairly definite start been published before. This picture was in a scruffy These were dhows that were made without use of
    date to the book. These slaves had been freed and little envelope with ‘Hausberg’ on it. any iron whatsoever, not even nails. They were all
    bought to HMS London, which was the headquarters Fortunately, I knew who Hausberg was. MacKinder’s pinned and tied together. This is reminiscent of a
    of the British anti-slavery patrol between 1874 and Mt Kenya expedition was partially sponsored by a Chinese junk.
    1884. man called Campbell-Hausberg. MacKinder was not One just wonders if there was any influence in those
    It’s remarkable because there are so many young a mountaineer, he was a geographer, but he brought early days from early Chinese visitors to Lamu.

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