Across the Wide Zambezi: A Doctor's Life in Africa (52 page)

‘Look thy last on all things lovely!’ Africa would always have a place
in our hearts - the ‘great spaces washed with sun’. We took a last holiday: a
few days at Hwange game park, where we heard the lions in the night; a lodge by
the Zambezi - the wide Zambezi, the rolling river.

     I wrote to England: ‘I brought nothing into this continent
(except, in Wildean fashion, my genius), and it is certain I shall carry
nothing out of it - except a loving wife and children, incomparable
professional experience, and a life of adventure.

THE END

October, 1995.