[1] This appears, pages seventy-four through eighty-one, in General Booth and Other Poems.

[2] This appears, pages seventy-four through eighty-one, in General Booth and Other Poems.

[3] In the prose sketches in this book I have allowed myself a story-teller’s license only a little. Sometimes a considerable happening is introduced that came the day before, or two days after. In some cases the events of a week are told in reverse order.

Lady Iron-Heels is obviously a story, but embodies my exact impression of that region in a more compressed form than a note-book record could have done.

The other travel-narratives are ninety-nine per cent literal fact and one per cent abbreviation.

[4] Portions of this poem are scattered through this book for interludes. Others are already printed in General Booth and Other Poems.