I was once Adam Strang, an Englishman.

The period of my living, as near as I can guess it, was somewhere between 1550 and 1650, and I lived to a ripe old age, as you shall see.

It has been a great regret to me, ever since Ed Morrell taught me the way of the little death, that I had not been a more thorough student of history.

I should have been able to identity and place much that is obscure to me.

As it is, I am compelled to grope and guess my way to times and places of my earlier existences.
A peculiar thing about my Adam Strang existence is that I recollect so little of the first thirty years of it.