preamble, after my fashion, I care not overmuch. p. xi In the phantasmagoria we call the world, most things and men are ghosts, or at the best but ghosts of ghosts, so vaporous and unsubstantial that they scarcely cast a shadow on the grass. That which is most abiding with us is the recollection of the past, and . . . hence this preface. R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Cunninghame Graham p. xiiiCONTENTS p. xiii Page Cruz Alta 1 1 In a German Tramp 85 85 The Gold Fish 103 103 A Hegira 119 119