The book contains sketches of the author’s wanderings in East Africa during the war. They are not a consecutive series, but they are full of local coloring and echoes of the European war. Three of them give an account of the apostasy of the Abyssinian ruler, Lidj Yassou, from Christianity to don the turban, and the following uprising, of which the author was an eye-witness. The contents, with many illustrations, are: A coin is spun; Soldiers, sand, and sentiment; Aden of Araby; Cross and scimitar in Abyssinia; Es-Sawahil; Zanzibar—the spicy isle; The wilderness patrol; Kwa Heri.
“Delightful reading.”
+ Booklist 17:150 Ja ’21
“His tales of peoples so like us in their passions and ambitions, so different from us in habits and environment, assuredly make for edification as well as pleasure, and we could stand more of them.” C. F. Lavell
+ Grinnell R 15:282 N ’20 150w
“The impressions do not always ‘get across,’ good as the author’s material is.”
+ − Outlook 126:238 O 6 ’20 40w
“His experiences do not form a well-connected story. His impressions are patchy, with much left for inference. But as it is, the interest is absorbing and some passages one will read over and over again.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p10 S 23 ’20 400w