ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

OUR AFRICAN WINTER

Published by John Murray, London, 1929



An account of the Doyle family's trip to Kenya, Rhodesia and South Africa.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS


CHAPTER ONE

The Start; Trouble in the Bay; British and Boers; Madeira; The Death of de la Rey; Spiritualism and Christ; Lectures on the Ship; Some Dutch Friends; End of the Voyage.

CHAPTER TWO

Reception at Cape Town; Nature's Mystery; A Broadcast; The Dutch School; The Native Question; Taking Up a Farm; University Dinner; A Heresy Hunt; Table Mountain; Bushman Paintings; First Lecture; A Successful Seance; Strange Musical Mediumship; My Wife's Protest; Mrs Klimpton; Reincarnation.

CHAPTER THREE

Port Elizabeth; A Liberal Rabbi; The Garden of Death; The Strange Canoe; Reminiscences of 1900; Political Misunderstanding; The Bywoner; Sanna's Post; Maritzburg; The Voortrekkers; A Spirit Dog.

CHAPTER FOUR

Durban; The Valley of a Thousand Hills; Abduhl Latif an Evidential Case; A Durban Seance; Dick King; The Protection of Natives; Denis Makes His Debut; The Zulu Seer; Glorious Bathing.

CHAPTER FIVE

The Eastern Transvaal; South African Problems; The Native Strike; The Mean White; The Learned and the Humble; The Rustenburg Spirit Photograph; Pretoria; Professor Kovaloff; A Warning to Investors.

CHAPTER SIX

South African Art; The Coming of the Fairies; Teetoal Revelry; General Tanner; Louis Botha's Letters; The Flag.

CHAPTER SEVEN

Bechuanaland; The Khami Ruins; The Matoppo Hills; A Psychic Interlude; The Rain Forest; An Escape; Livingstone's Diaries; A Rhodesian Farm; Bitter Political Feeling; General Prospects of Rhodesia.

CHAPTER EIGHT

Chances in Rhodesia; A Remarkable House; Jan Ridd; The Umtali Murder; A Transvaal Case; Sally of Rhodesia; The Missions.

CHAPTER NINE

A Giant's Playground; The Pungwe Marshes; Beira; A Cyclone; A Great Ray; Chicoa Silver Mines; The Gospel of St John; Mandated Territory; Mombasa.

CHAPTER TEN

A Sporting Colony; The Railway Zoo; The Asiatic Question; A Day's Hunting; Drinking Habits; Tarlton's Farm; Native Question; Economics; The American Zola; The Man Eater.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

We Start for the Great Lake; The Rift Valley; A Dangerous Road; The Gulf of Kavirondo; Darkened Rooms; Tanganyika; The Mwanza Jail; The Bishops; Native Football; The Source of the Nile; A Cloud.

CHAPTER TWELVE

The People of Nairobi; Strange Animals; A Lecture Incident; Mombasa; The Famous Siege; An Earth Bound Animal; Salt Water Once More.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

A Lonely Ocean; Solomon's Tanks; The Nation's Key Men; A Great City of the Future; A Dead Town; A Crowded Day; Malta; and Marseilles.