Fired with a spirit of adventure and rebellion at being cooped between office walls the author threw up a assured future and set out to explore Southern Africa.His many adventures led him through Natal and Pondoland with an old Irish renegrade as a companion,then on foot and horseback through Northern Transvaal,etc. He tells many hitherto unrecorded stories of the past that are an important contribution to the growing knowledge of the early days in Southern Africa.