Posted by Adam Quinan on October 10, 2014 at 03:08:25 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Total Lunar eclipse posted by Magnus Smith on October 10, 2014 at 02:56:15:
Definitely a lunar eclipse in King Solomon's Mines:
"Very good; then here we have it—'4 June, total eclipse of the moon commences at 8.15 Greenwich time, visible in Teneriffe—South Africa, &c.' There's a sign for you. Tell them we will darken the moon to-morrow night."
Though it seems unlikely that only one elderly African recalled seeing one before as lunar eclipses are not that rare and affect large swathes of the world.