Beschrijving

I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings

which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have

taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently

evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it MAY be true.

The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead, and the

records of the Colonial Office dovetail perfectly with the narrative of

my convivial host, and so I give you the story as I painstakingly

pieced it out from these several various agencies.