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Title: An African Adventure

Author: Isaac F. Marcosson

Release Date: May 23, 2008 [EBook #25569]

Language: English

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AN AFRICAN ADVENTURE

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

ADVENTURES IN INTERVIEWING

PEACE AND BUSINESS

S. O. S: AMERICAS'S MIRACLE IN FRANCE

THE BUSINESS OF WAR

THE REBIRTH OF RUSSIA

THE WAR AFTER THE WAR

LEONARD WOOD: PROPHET OF PREPAREDNESS

[Illustration: KING ALBERT]

AN AFRICAN
ADVENTURE

BY

ISAAC F. MARCOSSON

AUTHOR OF "ADVENTURES IN INTERVIEWING," ETC.

NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD

MCMXXI

COPYRIGHT . 1921
BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT . 1921
BY JOHN LANE COMPANY

THE PLIMPTON PRESS
NORWOOD . MASS . U.S.A

_To_
THOMAS F. RYAN
WHO FIRST BEHELD THE VISION
OF AMERICA IN THE
CONGO

FOREWORD

From earliest boyhood when I read the works of Henry M. Stanley and
books about Cecil Rhodes, Africa has called to me. It was not until I
met General Smuts during the Great War, however, that I had a definite
reason for going there.

After these late years of blood and battle America and Europe seemed
tame. Besides, the economic war after the war developed into a struggle
as bitter as the actual physical conflict. Discord and discontent became
the portion of the civilized world. I wanted to get as far as possible
from all this social unrest and financial dislocation.

So much interest was evinced in the magazine articles which first set
forth the record of my journey that I was prompted to expand them into
this book. It may enable