@wyliesau Meinertzhagen was a man's man, these stories are from a different and completely alien era. his schoolboy japes and military deception to BTFO the Ottomans are the stuff of legend.
>"His instincts were abetted by an immensely powerful body and a savage brain"
our current regimes would baulk at the idea of giving men like him a free hand in Kenya. but men like him are needed to run an empire.