Martine grew up in England but was sent to live with Gwyn Thomas in Cape Town, Africa after losing her parents. She had to wear a uniform to her school and learned about the various animals that live on the Game Reserve Sawubona, including zebras, elephants, lions, baboons, wildebeest, bushbabies, springbok, kudu, leopards, waterbuck, warthogs, cobras, and albino giraffes. The document also mentions Zulu African people and a shipyard.