I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
When my convivial host discovered that he had told me so much, and that I was prone to doubtfulness, his foolish pride assumed the task the old vintage had commenced, and so he unearthed written evidence in the form of musty manuscript, and dry official records of the British Colonial Office to support many of the salient features of his remarkable narrative.
I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have taken fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it MAY be true.

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MY FRIEND, BILL UNDERHILL FROM MY SUMMERS IN MINNESOTA DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE IN 1969. A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK, I SENT HIS SISTERS PHOTOS AND FAMILY MOVIES OF HIM AND A LOT OF WRITTEN MEMORIES ABOUT HIM. THIS IS MEMORY NUMBER 9 Memory #  9  I remember Bill reading a Tarzan book and stopping to read a section to me. He thought that Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan seemed a little racist. The passage went something like this. Bill read it laughing at the politically incorrect old fashioned writing:                         Tarzan pulled the bowstring back.             “What are you doing, sir? Those men have not harmed us.” said the white guide.        “They are black,” replied Tarzan.                         I’ve read a lot of the 60-odd Tarzan books but I haven’t found that passage.                          I also remember Bill reading an Ian Fleming book. One of those 007 ones. I think he said that he had read almost all of them.