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Name: HOSKING, John William

Nee: relative of John Nankervis Hosking, son of John T. Hosking b. 1865

Birth Date: 1893 St Just, Cornwall

Death Date: 1931 Penzance

Profession: Provincial Commissioner

Area: Eldoret, Sergoit

Married: Yes

Book Reference: Eldoret, Hut

General Information:

Eldoret - has spoken of his house at Moiben as "Kampi ya Simba". In the early days he saw pugmarks in the cement of a building under construction. Later he shot a lion at one corner of the building; he looked round and saw him in another place and shot again, and then shot at yet another. He did this seven times. In the morning he found seven dead lion! His wife, very Irish and fey, believed in the "little people" and said Moiben boasted a haunted house and felt her hair rise when she stood in the place. A sceptical husband slept in the room and the next morning woke to find the bed on the other side of the room.
Hut - PC Kampi ya Simba Moiben, shot 7 lions one night

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