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Xlibris [Published Date: 2008]. Hardcover, 157 pp. First published in 1972 under title The Man With a Toothbrush in his Hat by Multimedia Publications. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by Richard Sampson on front free end paper dated September 2012. Includes 18 pages of black and white illustrations. Very good in very good dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing to jacket as well with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Contents include: Family origins; Matabeleland; The Zambezi Valley; Mrs. Westbeech; Death of Sipopa; Westbeech's struggle for British interests; The Barotse civil war of 1884-5; Trouble with the Ila people; More tribal problems; Death of Westbeech and aftermath; In retrospect; Unpublished Sources; Published Sources; Notes and References. [From back cover] This is the latest book written by Richard Sampson, an authority on the early Europeans to visit what is now Zambia. He has now turned his attention to the pre-Colonial period and concentrates on the hunters and traders who were the first Europeans to establish themselves in the 'country. The casualties among these people were high, not because of war or trouble with the Africans, but due to most of them developing fatal sicknesses, the sources of which were unknown to them at that time. George Westbeech was the most notable of these hardy people because he had both the personality and the command of the African languages which gained the respect of the ordinary African as well as the tribal chiefs who were ruling both sides of the Zambezi River. The Barotse people appointed him an Induna (a Senior Headman) which gave him considerable influence and power in the country which he exercised with both wisdom and good judgement.