The Modern Traveller

Chapter 16: TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

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About This Book

A satirical cycle of comic poems voiced by a self-styled traveller who recounts episodic portraits of eccentric adventurers, botched expeditions, and social absurdities encountered abroad. The pieces parody conventional travel narratives, using concise verse, caricature, and dark wit to expose vanity, bravado, and commercial ambition; short lyrical chapters alternate anecdote, mock-heroic scenes, and pointed reflection, blending humorous narration with verse illustration.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Dialectical, unusual and archaic spellings have not been corrected. There are also a few spellings which appear to be poetic license. Two errors were corrected (the correction is in square brackets):

P. 24 But Blood belonged to ninty-four[ninety-four],
P. 44 Blood made an acurate[accurate] survey

The cover was produced by the transcriber and is hereby placed in the public domain.

As the transcriber, I feel moved to comment that I was somewhat offended by the implicit bigotry of the author towards Africans, however I took it as a sign of the times (when the poem was written) rather than intentional racial slurs.