19340830 Soane Cambell to GAC
Rec’d Mankoya
9.10.34 Barotseland.
By ordinary \ 5 weeks N. Rhodesia
mail / 5 days 30/8/34
Dear Mr Clay,
I am sending you today an ash-tray made from un-refined copper from the Roan mine. Gervas thought you might like it. It is something of a curio.
Gervas is in good form and we hope to go out on tour in a day or so, when we ought to see a fair amount of game now & then. We go through the uninhabited country again, which, though full of spore, especially buffalo, when we went through in June, was disappointing in the way of game, as there was a good deal of water about in the scattered pools away in the Bush. Now, these will have dried up & been sucked up by elephants & the game will have to resort to the pools along our route.
I expect he told you of the nice little “pat” he got from “The Legal Powers That Be” over the murder case? It is quite flattering, but thoroughly well-deserved, as he made a jolly good job of a very difficult case. We are quite thrilled by the car, in which we have been out several times. I am
not a driver myself & am somewhat impressed with his attainments in rough veld, though he says “it’s easy enough”. I think he may be able to get to Mongu on the car, in fact, I feel sure he will be able to do so in time.
The mail is due to close & I must shut up to.
I hope you & Mrs clay are fit and well? My kindest regards you both,
Sincerely yours
Soane Cambell
I can never repay Gervas for his generous kindness to me. He could not have been kinder had he been my near relation.
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