"If I could find a job that would take me up and down the length and breadth of this land, that would suit me finely." "That is the kind of a man I want," he said, eying me keenly.

"I have a German, but I need an Englishman.

Do you speak native languages ?" "Scarcely a word." To my surprise he nodded approval at that answer.
"I have parties of natives traveling all over the country gathering folk lore, and ethnographical particulars, but they get into a village and sit down for whole weeks at a time, drawing pay for doing nothing.
I need an Englishman to go with them and keep them moving." "All well and good," I said, "but I understand the government is not in favor of white men traveling about at random." "But I am known to the government," he answered.

"I have been accorded facilities because of my professional standing.

Have you references you can give me ?" "No," I said.