Transcriber’s Note:
Footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Photographic illustrations are also moved to fall on paragraph breaks.
Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s [note] at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.
Any corrections are indicated using an underline highlight. Placing the cursor over the correction will produce the original text in a small popup.
A map at the end of the text serves as a link to a larger version for closer inspection of details of the Wa-Kikuyu territory.
Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate the reader to the corresponding entry in the corrections table in the note at the end of the text.
A WHITE KING
IN EAST AFRICA
JOHN BOYES
A WHITE KING
IN EAST AFRICA
THE REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF JOHN BOYES, TRADER AND SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, WHO BECAME KING OF THE SAVAGE WA-KIKUYU
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
EDITED BY
C. W. L. BULPETT
WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP
NEW YORK
McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY
1912
(All rights reserved.)
TO
WILLIAM NORTHROP McMILLAN
IN MEMORY OF MANY
TRAMPS TOGETHER