“Getting out was a bit like making your way through a jungle: if you know the way and all the hazards that lie before you the chances of getting through are good; if you know nothing the tendency is to take chances based on intuition, with unknown results.”

—  Tim Jenkin

Escape from Pretoria https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/escape_from_pretoria.pdf, p. 35.

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Prison escapee and author 1948

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