"We laid the other two men by the heels at the time, but the Englishman, who was the prime mover in it, we have never been able to lay our hands upon.

I felt certain that day when I met him in Amsterdam, that I had seen him somewhere before.

Ever since then I have been puzzling my brains to discover where it was, and why it was so familiar to me.

A photograph was eventually sent us of the Englishman by the colonial authorities, but in that photograph he, the person I suspect, wears a beard and a heavy moustache.

It is the same man, however, and the description, even to the mark upon the face, exactly tallies with Hayle.