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Show il IN THINLY SETTLED RHODESIA. Hj 1 Wife of Pioneer Writes Home of Ex-i Ex-i perlences She Has Had. j "We have built a very largo house, 1 with an eighty-foot veranda of native I-' Wood, and no one could wish for nny-tbinK nny-tbinK more comfortable," writes a HwudcBlan woman. "It haR a thatched roof and the only expense wo havo hnd was tho boys' wages and tho cost of the windows and doors. We aro tho last people out from England whf havo eetUed In this district and tlu farthest up country as yet, living Home forty miles from Salisbury, the capital capi-tal of Mashonaland. I carao out with my husbnnd and lived In a tent until our house wns finished, with till our i luggage piled outside under a sail can-j can-j as. At nights lions prowled round i within forty ynrds of tho tent. Wo , havo only Just started farming In a j sninll way, but we do not have to buy tinned meat and tho like at exorbl- tnnt prices. Wo kill our own meat and use tho fat of tho animals for 1 cooking. Fresh milk and butter we get from our cows ai.d other necessl-ilea necessl-ilea can bo obtained nt reasonable prices at ull tho stores." |