{A Trip to the Colonies [continued]}[21st August 1974]

[Redbook2:49][19740821:1356]{A Trip to the Colonies [continued]}[21st August 1974]

Wednesday 19740821.1356

Just before we left Nyanyadzi, we went to the local market.  A drunken African ran past us singing and laughing.  There was an uncertain moment before the crowd of Africans laughed with us; during that moment, some may have been laughing at us.  So what?  How can I convey the unease of the situation?  At Nyanyadzi I felt that we walked a tightrope – but we were the Police, of course, and paid to be suspicious.

A reckons that the same tension exists in Salisbury.  She is pessimistic about the situation.  She plans to stay here, above or under ground.

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