![]() ![]() voyage to Africa – left Lisbon about 20th. Return – left Durban in the afternoon of 1st. ![]() voyage to Africa – left Lisbon beginning January 1896. The dates of the voyages related to the above event are (as nearly as possible):ġst. My mother's second marriage (which took place on 30 December 1895) is another date which I can give with preciseness and it is important for me, not in itself, but in one of its results – the circumstance that, my stepfather becoming Portuguese Consul in Durban (Natal), I was educated there, this English education being a factor of supreme importance in my life, and, whatever my fate be, indubitably shaping it. There is only one event in the past which has both the definiteness and the importance required for rectification by direction this is my father's death, which took place on 13 July 1893. Last year in Lisbon before moving to Durban, 1894, aged 6. ![]()
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