Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo. - H. Rider Haggard

Now all the world is wonderful, but surely among its countries there is none more so than Africa; no, not even China the unchanging, or India the ancient. For this reason, I think: those great lands have always been more or less known to their own inhabitants, whereas Africa, as a whole, from the beginning was and still remains unknown.

. . . is there anything so mighty as water in the world, I wonder

But what of names, which often enough mean nothing at all?