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Name: BRIGHT, H. E. R.

Profession: Bred chickens in the Rumuruti area. c/o Turton Bros.

Area: Rumuruti, Muhuroni

Book Reference: Polnay, Hut, Smeaton, Red 22

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Polnay - his neck worthy of a giraffe's and the tiny head at the end of the neck was small and round. He smiled; you couldn't imagine him without the smile. On mail days he came to the club, where nobody cared much for him, but that didn't worry him. "He's practically gone native," Constance said. 'Going native' meant living with a bibi, a black woman, usually a Nandi, handsome women most of them. Bright lived only a few miles from Major Barton who, on no condition, would visit him. His house was just a shack, his servants unkempt, except for one that wore khaki slacks and a red blouse. One glance and I knew it was a woman. He was a classical master before the war - won the MC. Alas, eccentrics can be tedious people. ....….…
Safari - two prospectors we met on our journey returning from Lolgorien with severe attacks of malaria. …….. They were Van Dyke, a South African Dutchman, and Bright, an Englishman. Bright, it appeared, was not extremely popular with the Administration, owing to his having become a 'blood brother' to a native tribe down South, a practice not favoured by the authorities, who felt that however well-meaning might be its intention the event lowered white prestige amongst the tribes. Bright and Van Dyke were employed by a syndicate of Kisumu traders to prospect in the gold-fields, we learned, but whether their search had been successful this far no one knew.  …… There's another girl going down too [to Lolgorien] Eileen Bright. Have you met her brother Dick at Lolgorien?
Hut has Bright 1925 Lolgorien, Kisii AND H.E.R. Bright 1922 c/o Turton Bros. Songhor

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