"I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!"

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.