African Expedition Magazine Volume 1 Issue 3

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Marshpig’s Father

The Namibian Champion of Ugly

“When I first saw him, I knew Marshpig was easily the ugliest man in South West Africa,” Danes said. He used the pre-liberation name for Namibia and fixed me with his piercing hunter’s stare. He was built like a pit bull – powerful and close to the ground, and almost bald due to a testosterone excess. His bald brown pate was crisscrossed with the pale lines of years of thorn- and buffalo tree scratches. November 2008 AFRICAN EXPEDITION MAGAZINE

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