Henri Rousseau The Snake Charmer painting

Henri Rousseau The Snake Charmer paintingHenri Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy paintingHenri Rousseau The Dream painting
under a mutual scrutiny too close and unremitting for romance. There were, however, seven unmarried Englishmen, three in Government service, three in commerce and one unemployed, who had fled to Matodi from his creditors in Kenya. (He sometimes spoke vaguely of “planting” or “prospecting,” but in the meantime drew a small remittance each month and hung amiably about the Club and the tennis courts.)
Most of these bachelors were understood to have some girl at Home; they kept photographs in their rooms, wrote long letters regularly, and took their leave with hints that when they returned they might not be alone. But they invariably were. Perhaps in precipitous eagerness for sympathy they painted too dark a picture of Azanian; perhaps the Tropics made them a little addle-pated.....