Note 3 — I VAGRANT ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH (continued 2)
Reading edition
In the prose sketches in this book I have allowed myself a story-teller’s license only a little. Sometimes a considerable happening is introduced that came the day before, or two days after. In some cases the events of a week are told in reverse order.
Lady Iron-Heels is obviously a story, but embodies my exact impression of that region in a more compressed form than a note-book record could have done.
The other travel-narratives are ninety-nine per cent literal fact and one per cent abbreviation.