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    A Journey Into A World Beneath
    A Journey Into A World Beneath
    A Journey Into A World Beneath
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    A Journey Into A World Beneath

    By Will Anthony, Jr

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    A Journey Into A World Beneath is briefly sizzled with romance of old times. From the beginning, you are bound to feel being part of the characters in the story. Sure enough, you will travel the journey and explore too, for out of the tale, rises the living story...
    The Journey into a world beneath is based on a true legend that lives around the small lake on the heights of the Mau. The Mau rises from the Western side of The Great Rift and drops all the way to the Lake Victoria. It provides the water that feeds Lake Victoria and thus the River Nile. Mau heights hold some of the world's largest craters. The heights rise well over 9,000 feet above sea level. The story centers on one of the heights which is the Timboroa peak. Timboroa is a real place. To its westerly side lie the heights of the Nandi Hills where the Nandi warriors battled the British for ten years until when their leader was murdered in cold blood by a British soldier. These heights have their own story. It is also where the Maa fought the Nandi for grazing grounds. But the legend here has naught to do with the wars. Nature has a way of demonstrating its power to man. When traveling up North in Kenya, remember to look out the window of your vehicle while at at the Timboroa heights, for to your right, ten meters from the road, lies our lake. You can't miss it if you are an observant traveler. If you have time, you could alight and ask around, for the legend still lives on!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWill Anthony, Jr
    Release dateSep 24, 2012
    ISBN9781301625932
    A Journey Into A World Beneath
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    Will Anthony, Jr

    Will Anthony Jr. is currently the Chairman of the Uasin Gishu County Land Control Board which caters for over one million people. Before this stint, he worked in other capacities with the National government. He has also been lecturer in three religious institutions, a service to the youth to gather knowledge from the aging population. In his life time, Will Anthony Jr. says he has met a lot of people and can unflinchingly say that he loved most of them. Why most of them? Well, it is a tall order to love everyone you meet! Will Anthony Jr. has written several e-books touching on diverse subjects that relate to society. The books extensively cover human social and economic practices and this is so because expertise in one field in Africa can become a drudgery according to his practical view. His perception is that if you were born in Africa and the continent is your aboriginal home, you are likely to have English as your second language (ESL). Sometimes it could even be a third language. For him, he had to learn his mother tongue then learn both English and Swahili simultaneously. He went to his pre-primary bare foot, later he joined the local primary school 5 Km away and had to trek barefoot again not because his parents could not buy him shoes but because cobblers were a rare find. That journey was a daily toil of 10 Km, 5 days in a week or ~270 days yearly for 7 years. With a smirk he says that when you achieve a PhD in Africa, then You have done Plenty of hard Digging (PhD) or you have a Permanent head Damage (PhD) and you might end up in a ditch because your IQ cannot contain the booze like the local fellas!"Why did the English colonize Africa?" To keep the African languages in Czech (check), and he says that one must forgive this pun. But besides the pun, English has broken both social and economic barriers of the once "dark continent" whose forefathers slaved the white farms and firms to lace the pockets of their Lords.A PhD holder in Africa will still practice other 'trades' though they maybe 'very' learned because poverty is shameless, one has to draw bounds through plenty of smart work or else, it will be a shame to steal so as to maintain class.He published a book in 1992, but the publisher coned him , he took her to court and the case aged in judicial corridors for 12 years. He then made a decision to abandon the matter and to forget about writing books. However, Self publishing made him to change that decision. More than anything, He salutes Smashwords Inc. for the platform.In retrospect, He recalls a Dr. Alfred Sam, a friend of his from North America who was also a dean of studies in a local university, exposing his white ass in the university's auditorium to catch attention. The noise ceased as students and lecturers turned to look at the grown-up man on the podium doing the abominable. Well, the good Dr. in anthropology then simply pulled up his trousers buckled the belt and said, "Thank You, now I have your attention..."For the sake of simplicity, without much display of academia, Will Anthony Jr. is a writer in the global village market . For this, he Salutes all his readers and all lovers of written work. In a word of caution, he says that men and women alike must bear. In reference, there is an Ibo saying that every market place has it's mad people who will attempt to mar the business of the seemingly sane people. On the other hand, the English say everyone is mad, it's only the degree madness that is at variance. Salutes most profoundly!

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      A Journey Into A World Beneath - Will Anthony, Jr

      A Journey Into

      A World

      Beneath

      Will Anthony Jr.

      Copyright 2013 Will Anthony Jr.

      Smashwords Edition

      LICENSE

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without written permission of the copy right owner. Nor can it be circulated in any form of binding or cover other that which it is published and without similar condition being imposed on subsequent purchaser.

      ISBN: 9781301625932

      Title: A Journey Into A World Beneath

      PUBLISHER: Smashwords, Inc

      All characters in this book are in no way related to real persons whether living or dead. They are fictitious people and any resemblance to any living or dead is coincidental.

      Table of Contents

      DEDICATION

      INTRODUCTION

      LONDON PUB: DATE 26 MAY 1714

      SEA BOUND

      ON UNCHARTED ROUTE

      SOMERSET ENGLAND

      CLIMBING UP THE HILLS

      I AM PREGNANT

      SAILING BENEATH THE EARTH

      MR. BRANDON

      THE FLOWERING FLAME

      MR. BRANDON IS BURRIED

      A WORLD BENEATH

      THE WEDDING

      QUEEN CHEPTALMOO

      BACK HOME

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      DEDICATION

      This work is dedicated to my children wherever they are on this planet earth. If any of you children are down on your luck, check the level of your effort!

      Thus God knows the world, because He conceived it in His mind, as if from the outside, before it was created, and we do not know its rule, because we live inside it, having found it already made.

      Brother William of Baskerville

      INTRODUCTION

      Somewhere deep in East Africa lies a neglected sub-lake up in the heights of Mau on the Timboroa peak. Unknown to the daily travelers along the great North Road is a whispered legend about this quiet small lake. The people living around this small lake never dare to bathe on the lake or even fish. The legend has it that in the early 15th centaury, a farmer lost his yoked oxen in the lake as animals attempted to take an afternoon drink. It is narrated that the oxen slid into the lake never to be seen again. Twenty years later a relative of the man travelling from United Kisumu brought him a remaining part of the yoke he had used on his oxen that fell into the lake. The elder of the area and all the people confirmed that the yoke was truly his for it had his clan's insignia. However, it is said that besides his markings, there were also other strange markings on the yoke which were organized beside his. Though the wood had been slightly corroded by water, it was still heavy and good but not best for making a yoke. The tale goes on to say that when the clan's man brought the wood work, it was posted in the ground where the meeting was held to discuss the strange occurrence.

      The man who brought the yoke all the way from United Kisumu told how he got the item from fishermen who sailed Lake Ukerewe now Lake Victoria. The fishermen told him how they came across the yoke with his colleagues as they fished on the shores of the Migingo Island. The fisherman told him that near this Island is a place not far away from the shore where the lake water seemed to come from under and flow away in all directions. However, the puzzle remained, How did the yoke come to be at the shores of Migingo Island? Lake Ukerewe is more than 150 kilometers from the heights of Timboroa. It was suggested that the spirits who lived in water had taken the yoke to Lake Ukerewe. The owner of the yoke and the oxen was reprimanded by the medicine man and the head man of the area during the meeting. The medicine man told the people how the village had lost young men and women in the past while trying to fetch water or fish in the lake never to be seen again. For that, no one was allowed to fetch water or fish in the small lake. Over the years, the yoke which had been posted in the ground as a reminder to all was slowly covered by soil and it became a mound. Later on a bush grew on the mound and covered it. The village grew; the young people who had been around at the time of the incident grew old and died. The story faded, became tale, but no one dared to fetch water or fish on the lake. It became a norm until that norm was broken early of the 17th century. A baffling and shocking phenomenon took place before the people as they stood on the tiny shore of the lake…

      We have traveled into space and looked deep into the universe’s depths, but the world beneath our feet remains unexplored and unseen to many of us except for those who fate have appointed for them to be participants of the discovery.

      W. Maiyo.

      LONDON PUB: DATE 26 MAY 1714

      It was already 1900hrs and his friends had not turned up as they had earlier agreed. James Don was the only son to his father, Lord Don MacKinnon. He was a restless young man of 26 years. His friends were Peter McCloud a teacher by profession and a son to a Church of England Priest, Road Stan a lawyer and John Destine who was a clinician. Peter was older than Don by a year; Road

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