Tuesday, January 27, 2009

eaten by a lion

Reporting from Zimbabwe has been dangerous for some time.

In Robert Cary's The Pioneer Corps (the story of the 57 whites who crossed the Shashi River and erected the British flag in what's now Harare's Africa Unity Square in September 1890) there's a mention of a certain Baumann, J in the "civilian" column.

Newspaper correspondent, the entry says. Eaten by a lion. November 1890.

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