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It may perhaps be pointed out by some of my readers that Jorkens Remembers Africa is a title that does not apply to all of these tales. And yet it is to the deserts and forests of Africa that Jorkens’ memory seems to return the most gladly, whenever I or any other friend have been so happy as to awaken it to its true brilliance by our little trifling gifts. Many a man’s memory as he grows old loses slowly its colour and splendour, till pictures that he believed could never fade, fall from it one by one. How fortunate if the refreshments that we sometimes offer Jorkens are able to open again that closed but brilliant inner eye, till we watch it gazing once more steadfast and child-like sheer in the face of Truth.