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Show IN THINLY SETTLED RHODE3IA. Wife of Pioneer Writes Home of Experiences Ex-periences She Has Had. "We have built a very largo house, with an eight) -foot veranda of native wood, and no one could wish for anything any-thing more comfortable," writes a Ilhodcstan woman. "It has a thatched root and the only expenso wc havo had was the boy's' wages and the cost of the windows and doors. Wo nro the last people out from Kngland who havo settled In this district and tho farthest up country as jet. Ilxlng somo forty miles from Salisbury, the capital capi-tal of Maphonslnnd. 1 came out with my Inn-band and lived In a tent until our house was finished, wdth all our luggage piled outside under a sail canvas can-vas At nights lions prowled round within forty yards of the tent. Wo lme only Just started farming in n smnll way. but we do not have to buy tinned meat and the like at exorbitant exorbi-tant price We kill our own inrat and iii the fat of the animals for cooking. Kresh milk and huttet wo get finin our cows and oilier necessities necessi-ties can bo obtained at reasonable) prices at all the sioies." |