Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 85
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[Page 85]
These straw – conically pointed huts are of course the typical house of these natives tho well known but it was interesting to see them all the same - The huts were neat & clean & the compound quite clean - The German curator I expect sees to all that - We've had also a peep at his house – from the exterior – just at the back was a colony of those handsome but very noisy birds – the metallic starlings - They were nesting & parliament was sitting - They were all speakers & all made the utmost use of their privilege of saying a few words to the rest - I saw no listeners - Their nests are large & crowded together at the end of the branches - Now & again the weight is too much & down comes branch nests eggs & young birds - A tit bit for snakes carnivores & accipitrines -
Another thing interested me – in a bee hive hut open all round - and thatwere meteorological instruments – bulbs & thermometers – dry & wet - A rain guage stood outside in good position - Yes there was a good German brain