Charles Beadle was the British author of: A Trip to the United States in 1887 (1887), The White Gambit (1900), A Whiteman's Burden (1912), Witch-Doctors (1922), The Blue Rib (1927), The Esquimau of Montparnasse (1929) and Expatriates at Large (1930). "In a bayou in the south-eastern corner of the Victoria Nyanza was the station of Ingonya, a brown scab on the face of the green earth. The round mud huts of the askaris were like two columns of khaki troops marching rigidly on each side of the parade ground. To the north, upon a slight rise of ground, were the white men's quarters; the non-commissioned officers had four bungalows to the south of the orderly room and Court House; and beyond a green plot flanked by a store house and an ordnance building, was a bigger bungalow, florid in the amplitude and colour of the red pillared verandah, the residence of the Kommandant, Herr Ober- Lieutenant Hermann von Schnitzler und zu Pfeiffer. " --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.