Also of Scarbrough's 'honest' Prospectus: 'The British public like that'. Is reluctantly preparing to winter abroad, despite 'no longer having the Wandering Jew feeling'.

Reminisces about Lord Salisbury's congratulatory cable 'on smashing the Fulahs' in 1897; and, in his 'second childhood', he would like a copy, and wonders 'whether any of the Niger political papers have been preserved or whether Lever will put them in the dustbin'.

[Cable quoted by Charles Orr, The Making of Northern Nigeria, London, 1911 ed., p. 38.]