William Palmer

When the Circus Came to Town

Kitty and the Prince

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IN EARLY 1899 an advertisement appeared in the South African press:

Savage South Africa in London: Wanted, horned animals, baboons, zebras, giraffes, koodoos, springbucks, hartebeests, Young Afrikander girls (good looking and to be slightly coloured).

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