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Aus, Namibia, the present dayAnja was at the Klein-Aus Vista Lodge, near the small settlement of Aus, checking emails on the new iPad she had bought in Windhoek when the message from Nick came through. While she had never had anything but fond memories of Namibia’s capital city, she was now quite pleased to be some six hundred kilometres south of it and back in the desert landscape of southern Namibia.
It might be nothing, she told herself, but the scanned manuscript was all she had to work with right now in terms of primary source research material. She opened the document, quickly worked out where Lili had got up to in her translation, and began to read.
Komatipoort, South Africa, 1902A steam locomotive’s whistle tore through the dawn chatter of birds as they reached th
