I fancy this occasional contact with the African continent under our feet will become so common an occurrence that we shall soon pay little heed to it. Egyptian Days - Page 186 by Philip Sanford Marden - 1912 - 329 pages Full view - About this book
...steamers could still run aground at some times of the year; but this was now frequently treated as a lark. 'I fancy this occasional contact with the African...under our feet will become so common an occurrence,' Marden continued, 'that we shall soon pay little heed to it.'"' Indeed, colonial modernity's power...