William Flew

Shakespeare tells you


My crown is in my heart, not in my head
Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones
Nor to be seen: my crown is called content
A crown is that seldom kings enjoy




In Caribbean William Des Voeux denounced the exploitation of workers by the planters. As governor of St. Lucia during the decade of 1870, abolished forced labor and construction plant sugar. The outfit, responsible for improving the Olympians plumehelmeted tropical large farms in Britain, it was necessary omnicompetent. They negotiate with tribal leaders, drafting laws, set up meetings, taxes collected, planned towns, encouraging sports, building roads and railways, irrigation and sanitation, set up schools and hospitals. The difficulties facing them are legion. The governor of Hong Kong found that the main force in the colony runs some of its brothels. Being sent to Africa equator was almost certainly fatal: explorer Richard Burton described the typical residence of the governor as a "coffin of corrugated iron or Morgue planklined, including consul dead once a year." When faced with poor health, hard work, isolation and often hostility acute local, some British administrators "were native," and others go mad. Wrote Sir Hugh Clifford, who became governor of Ceylon in 1907, that any white man who had lived apart "among people of Asian, the alien race is never completely healthy again." Later in his career, Clifford had conversations over the phone during the night with a love of death, before being confined to a