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Appendix: The story behind the story
The author's trip on the Orinoco and Ventuari

(From "The Camp-Fire" section of the issue.)

ERE is something from Arthur O. Friel in connection with his complete novel in this issue. Following it is a brief account of his trip up the Orinoco and Ventuari last year. You may recall I promised to try to get him to tell us all some thing about that trip, but it wasn’t easy to persuade him and I’m just low enough to hand you first of all one of his letters on the subject.

Seriously, I sympathize with him and with the many others of our writers’ brigade who squirm and wriggle when it comes their turn to stand up and talk to you about themselves. Most of them make themselves do it, though, and do it for the sake of Camp-Fire. They’ve enjoyed listening to the other fellows and know it’s only fair to buck up and make their own contributions. Mr. Friel, for example, knew you knew he had made that trip and would want to hear something about it from him, just as he would want to hear about interesting trips made by the rest of you. So he comes across: