AUTHOR’S ‘ ‘PRO-LOG”:

from memory

In writing from memory this “LOG” of my “vagabond journey” around the Island (a long time after the event) I have missed much and many people, doubtless, and to my regret. Much has been left unsaid, nevertheless a true picture of the people and

the events has been attempted. If I have been overly frank, I risk being put down for my brashness —

He that is down, needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride:

As to the scenic pictures, sunrises and sunsets, along the way,

I leave it to my readers to “go see for themselves”. After all, what one sees depends on “that inner eye” ~

When each in his separate star Shall draw the thing as he sees it For the God of things as they are.”

Why did I ‘make the trip? In Maugham’s “The Moon and Sixpence” the hero (villain) is driven by a daemon: “I’ve got to paint,

I’ve got to paint!” Perhaps something of the same sort of daemon made me want to “create a picture”.

W.A.R.

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