CHAPTER I 



INTO THE BLUE 



EIGHTEEN years ago I sold my small business 

 and set out with Osa, my wife, to see the world. 

 We sailed through the South Seas and explored the 

 jungles of the Malay Peninsula. We now find our 

 greatest happiness on the shores of our Lake Paradise 

 home in British East Africa, hundreds of miles from 

 civilization. Wild elephants and aboriginal natives 

 are our nearest neighbors. 



We are really not very different from other people 

 despite the strange course our life has taken. We 

 love thrills; and we love home. And we want to be 

 pretty comfortable in both. 



We have foimd Africa full of thrills. Wild ele- 

 phants come right in and steal sweet potatoes out of 

 our back yard up at the Lake. Silly ostriches dash 

 madly across the trail when we are motoring. Rhinos 

 tree us. Lions roar and hyenas cackle around our 

 camps. 



Yet never was there a home happier than ours. 

 There is no corner grocery store. The nearest 

 telephone is five htindred miles away. But we have 



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