Editing Private Journals (section)

===Fellow Adventurers===
* ''On [[Doctor Bermuda]]'': "I first met the Doctor on departing America in pursuit of my erstwhile nemesis.  I later discovered that he had managed to escape using an exact replica of the C.S.S. Hunley, built in secret by his Confederate allies.  My commissioned steamship traced and retraced the waters where he had last been seen, but found nothing save a small boat of abnormal manufacture.  It was constructed from a curious dark wood, the like of which I have never seen before, but it had neither oars nor masts for propulsion.  eight feet long from stem to stern, its sole occupant was a large shaggy ape.  The fearsome creature was lying insensibly in tiny boat in an iridescent robe with a staff in one hand and a tall, conical hat on his head.<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;"Moved partly by pity, partly by curiousity, we took the poor creature onto our ship and discovered that it was still alive, though apparently suffering from malnutrition and dehydration.  I nursed him back to health in Raleigh while testing his prodigious strength and dexterity, but was surprised when, almost incidentally, he proved to be a most receptive student of humanity.  Within a month he was forming simple phrases, and in a year he was able to write fluently. I took him with me back to England and, after a month of making haphazard attempts at his education, introducing him to the litterati of the city, I was able to leave him quite on his own to continue his studies at his own discretion (thanks in part to generous grants by certain private individuals on his behalf).<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;"His facility for learning is made no less remarkable by the fact that he was, apparently, a complete Tubula Rasa when he was first discovered in the Bermuda triangle.  He did not know his name, and easily took to being called Bermuda by myself and my colleagues.  In fact, since practically everyone I introduced him to was a "Doctor" of some sort, he took to referring to himself as "Doctor Bermuda".  I never bothered to correct him, and the point is moot at present since he holds terminal degrees in engineering and the physical sciences from several universities in England and abroad.<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;"Even today I still consider him to be the only person in England worth seriously discussing the state of the human race.  Of course, I am somewhat prejudiced in this regard since he has had the decency of providing my means of locomotion for the past fifty years."