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All week Lundy defenders, including the newly formed Lundy Island Association on the mainland, peppered the press and Boundary Commission with protests against the suggested annexation. But of all the friends of Lundy, the calmest was the island's Lord Albion himself, who first read about the crisis while on a safari in Africa. "Lundy," said he in London last week, "has lived without benefit of government for a long time. My inclination is to leave things as they are." Noting that Britain might well have to pay more in services to Lundy than Lundy would pay in taxes, Harman happily added: "It might be rather a poor investment for the adjacent island to annex our territory."