He knows adventure from the ground- roots up.

If he could tell his story, we'd sit listening entranced for days.

Depend on it, he's not known blacks all his life.

Let's try him on Johnny." Johnny, whom Kennan beckoned up to him, was a loan from the Resident Commissioner of the British Solomons at Tulagi, who had come along as pilot and guide to Kennan rather than as philosopher and friend.

Johnny approached grinning, and Jerry's demeanour immediately changed.