6 INTRODUCTORY NOTE 



and I thank you very much that you hold out to 

 me prospects of your publishing a book about the 

 East African campaign. It will interest me in 

 the highest degree to be able to view the adventure 

 from your standpoint ; for, naturally enough, 

 my own view is one-sided. It pleases me that you 

 have read my own account with interest, also that 

 you praise so much my conduct of the campaign. 

 From your lips I attach considerable value to 

 such an opinion, for I had heard so much of 

 your bravery and your daring patrols that I felt 

 we were already acquainted to some extent before 

 we met personally in Tuliani. 



" The unique nature of our campaign has 

 brought it home to me that we did not keep 

 enough records ; and of the records we did keep, 

 we were able to bring only a part with us to 

 Europe. So that, alas ! much is lost to us that is 

 both valuable and unique. I am all the more 

 pleased^therefore, that I shall be able to supple- 

 ment my personal recollections with your book. 

 With deepest regards, 



(Signed) " Von Lettow, 



" Major-General." 



Von Lettow himself, in his own account of the 

 campaign, mentions how my brother captured 

 and burnt a convoy containing inter alia some 

 thousands of pairs of trousers, with the result 

 that the enemy were left trouserless for months. 



I have only to add that Arnold Wienholt in 



