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He published his own cyclostyled magazine called “Chiripula’s
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appointed him the joint leader of an expedition into previously unexplored territory. He was accompanied on this trip by 120 porters and his pet baboon. The expedition claimed for the
Company large areas of what are now the Zambian copper fields. He eventually left the Company and built his mansion
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in the remote bush where he became a revered figure by the local community. He was given the name
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valuable sidelights on the history of
Northern Rhodesia - but it is agony to dig them out." He also wrote an autobiography, "Chirupula's Tale"
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