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This work is in the Canadian public domain, but may be under copyright in some countries. If you live outside Canada, check your country's copyright laws. The Gulistan. I n the following pages I have attempted to give some account of my life experiencesβepisodes strung rather sketchily together, accompanied by occasional reflections and comments.
I am sorry that I have so little to say regarding the many famous or interesting people I have met, in fact there is little in this book about anyone but myself. Where others do come into the story, I have tried, as far as possible, to avoid giving names. He is a tall, dark man, with a squint, well known to you all, but it would be unfair to disclose his identity. It may well be that the trivialities I record have no interest for the general reader, but to me the minor incidents of life are vastly more interesting than heroic achievementsβif this is a personal failing, I cannot escape from it.
In the accounts of my travels I have offered a few comments on the racial characteristics and conditions of life in various countries, but I do not forget the danger of such superficial generalities.
It is also obvious that most of my experience was gained long before the Great War, which is assumed to have altered everything. Although this book is not intended to be a serious attempt at autobiography, still it may be well to begin on orthodox lines, and I may therefore record the fact that I was born at Lausanne in Switzerland on November 9, My family name speaks for its Norman origin, being included in the Roll of Battle Abbey, and the somewhat unusual fact exists that it has never been shared by others than ourselves.
