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Yet stay.

A card was left upon me, a few days ago, by Captain Cave-Brown-Cave, R. N., with a verbal message: "Would Mr. Teixeira-de-Mattos-Teixeira care for a rubber of bridge one afternoon?"  ''Yesterday I accepted the soft invitation and took 14/- off Captain Cave-Brown-Cave and his fellow troglodytes. This would have been £7 at my normal points.''

These are our island adventures.

Here is your Inevitable.

Make me a list (will you?) of people who to your knowledge have entreated me hospitably during the past twelve-month, so that I may send them copies of this or some other book when Christmas cometh round.

With their addresses, please, of which I remembreth not one single one

I had been recommended to go from Buenos Aires across the Andes to Valparaiso and to come home by Chile, Peru and the Panama Canal rather than to sail twice over the same course between Buenos Aires and Southampton.