"Ingratitude--base, vile ingratitude--is recalled by it! That man, that man, who but for me would have perished in the pathless wilds of Russia, that man in the hour of my adversity forsook me." The German looked up.

"Yes," said Bonaparte, "I had money, I had lands; I said to my wife: 'There is Africa, a struggling country; they want capital; they want men of talent; they want men of ability to open up that land.

Let us go.' "I bought eight thousand pounds' worth of machinery--winnowing, plowing, reaping machines; I loaded a ship with them.

Next steamer I came out--wife, children, all.

Got to the Cape.