The name of the principal character in the yarn is, of course, fictitious.

The real name is an old but not a noble one in England.] "Have the natives the custom of walking through fire ?" said my friend the Beach-comber, in answer to a question of mine.

"Not that I know of.

In fact the soles of their feet are so thick-skinned that they would think nothing of it." "Then have they any spiritualistic games, like the Burmans and Maories?
I have a lot of yarns about them." "They are too jolly well frightened of bush spirits to invite them to tea," said the Beach-comber.

"I knew a fellow who got a bit of land merely by whistling up and down in it at nightfall.