Excerpt from To Menelek in a Motor-Car: With 72 Illustrations From Photographs and a Map, by B. Bentley

IN the ordinary course of events, a preface is inserted in a book in order that the reader may have the satisfaction of beginning by a good long skip. No doubt the usual skip will be made, but in this case it will not be a long one, for I only propose to say a few words of pleading in extenuation of sentence, by explaining how the following pages came to be written.

Bede Bentley and I happened to be sharing the same house and both to be rather run down in health, so that a pipe and a yarn after dinner was the utmost exertion that we were capable of for some time.

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