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would otherwise have been. When asked for 

 exact details of the site of his discoveries he 

 always seems to me to have hedged and kept 

 some little essential back. In his later years he 

 must have suffered some self-recrimination for 

 this weakness, for with all his methodicalness it 

 turned out in the end that he had actually hidden 

 from himself some information about his earlier 

 specimens which had grown in value with the 

 years. 



He was also taught a humiliating lesson in this 

 direction, before he died, by more than one 

 visiting scientist. Brown thought that he had 

 acquired a complete monopoly of the knowledge 

 of the secret hiding-places of the fossil plants and 

 animals in his area. He was flabbergasted, 

 however, to find that his visitors, with their 

 expert knowledge of the strata, enjoyed quite good 

 sport in his part of the world without needing to 

 use him as a gillie. 



I have had to show the kind of reception that 

 was waiting for Broom, and how carefully he 

 would have to play his cards, if he was to get 

 that access to the fossils for which he hoped and 

 had travelled a thousand miles. Broom was 

 fortunately well suited for the game he had to 

 play with his ultra-cautious host. He even had 

 that useful trump which Kannemeyer had often 



