Wild life

The family water stories that have become legends

9 March 2024

9:00 AM

9 March 2024

9:00 AM

Laikipia, Kenya

When I met him as a boy, Terence Adamson was an elderly fellow whose face had been half torn away by one of his brother George’s famous lions. His disfigured features made him hard to look at, but Terence taught me how to dowse for water. He’d pick up any old stick and divine with that, or he used a pendulum or two metal rods held out in front of him as if gripping an imaginary steering wheel.

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