Up against it in Nigeria . YOLA AND ILORIN 199 me for disturbing him, explained that (a) hehad already had a copy of the wire himself;(b) the woman was dead ; (c) there wTas a doctorat both Ibadan and Offa, and (d) in any caseit was no business of mine. Why this immenseexpenditure of electricity and paper takes placeI have never been able to discover—unless, asI say, it is that the railway like their achieve-ments to be as widely published as possible. A few nights later, two gloomy-looking figures,not unreminiscent of a couple of Shakespearsgrave-diggers, roused me from my slumbers, andchante
Up against it in Nigeria . YOLA AND ILORIN 199 me for disturbing him, explained that (a) hehad already had a copy of the wire himself;(b) the woman was dead ; (c) there wTas a doctorat both Ibadan and Offa, and (d) in any caseit was no business of mine. Why this immenseexpenditure of electricity and paper takes placeI have never been able to discover—unless, asI say, it is that the railway like their achieve-ments to be as widely published as possible. A few nights later, two gloomy-looking figures,not unreminiscent of a couple of Shakespearsgrave-diggers, roused me from my slumbers, andchanted in sepulchral unison: Pilot Marks isdead! Never having heard of Pilot Marks,I hastened out on to the veranda, and questionedmy drab visitors. They turned out to be theEuropean skipper and engineer of the Fabius—the ferry-boat which used to ply her erraticway between Jebba and the island in pre-bridgedays. Marks, they told me, was the nativepilot. Not quite knowing whether I was sus-pected of being responsible for his
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