Rajah Vyner Brooke and his termites. Rajah Sir Charles Vyner Brooke "was an ardent stamp collector. When he returned to his palace from a visit to England, he had a terrible surprise. Termites had invaded the cupboards in which his stamp albums were kept and had eaten, page by page and from cover to cover, thousands of his valuable stamps. The Rajah was so disgusted that he decided to give up collecting, realising that in the tropical climate of his …
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