# Quote — Beryl Markham, West With The Night

> Moreover, it seemed that the printers of the African maps had a slightly malicious habit of including, in large letters, the names of town, junctions, and villages which, while most of them did exist in fact, as a group of thatched huts may exist or a water hole, they were usually so inconsequential as completely to escape discovery from the cockpit.

- Author: [Beryl Markham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/beryl-markham.md)
- Book: [West With The Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/beryl-markham/west-with-the-night.md)
- Page: 32
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Beryl_Markham#West_with_the_Night_(1942)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/beryl-markham/west-with-the-night/moreover-it-seemed

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> So far as I know I was the only professional woman pilot in Africa at that time period I had no freelance competition in Kenya, man or woman.

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> Why I ran at all or with what purpose in mind is beyond my answering, but when I had no specific destination I always ran as fast as I could in the hope of finding one--and I always found one.

p. 57 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/beryl-markham/west-with-the-night/why-i-ran.md)

> The girl Markham was left to run wild with Kipsigis boys, wearing a cowrie shell on a leather thong around her wrist to ward off evil spirits. She ate with her hands, her first language was Swahili, and she could hurl a spear […] Markham practically grew up in the saddle; she told a friend that she felt better on a horse than on her feet.

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