Jane Goodall

That's what I'd always wanted to do.

But I had this great mother who always used to say, Jane, if you want to do something enough and you work hard enough...

and you take advantage of opportunities, you'll get there in the end.

And so when I was told by the British authorities that it wouldn't be appropriate for me to go out completely on my own without some kind of female companion, my mother was the one who offered to come.

Oh, she was fabulous.

She had a clinic.

Her brother was a surgeon, and he supplied her with all kinds of simple medications like aspirins and Band-Aids and Epsom salts, you know, that kind of thing, something that anybody can administer.

And she set up a little clinic on the shore of the lake for the local fishermen who were living around the park.

And she had so much patience and so much concern and care that with these simple remedies she sometimes worked wonderful, amazing cures.

In fact, we found out later that she was known as the White Witch Doctor.

And, of course, this was tremendously helpful in establishing friendly, good relationships with the local people, and those have remained ever since.

She was with me about, it was between three and four months.

And by that time, the local authorities realized that, you know, it was okay and I was going to be all right.

And I had a staff by then.

I had a cook and a boat driver.

And I'd made friends with the local people.

And they said, all right, you can stay.

No, they used to run away.

The first moment they saw me, they would depart into the undergrowth, and it was very frustrating.

But gradually, from an open, rocky peak overlooking two valleys, one on the north and one on the south,