…Three steps up was a veranda. Upon the veranda, smiling and motioning forward, sat a very thin, very old, much wrinkled black man, John Brown. It is not often that one meets a living legend and had I known more about the person I confronted I would…

…years old me history baby so long. He laughed dryly at the rustle of roof thatch when tarantulas stir the son of a slave. John Brown had left America in 1885, never to return. He had gone to Barbados and then to France. He had been a merchant seaman…

…a living bit of history. He had been the personal servant of colonel whiffen, who explored the la charrera area around 1912. John Brown is described in whiffen's now rare book explorations of the Upper Amazon. John Brown was the last person to see the…

…explored the la charrera area around 1912. John Brown is described in whiffen's now rare book explorations of the Upper Amazon. John Brown was the last person to see the French Explorer jean Robuchon, who disappeared on the Rio Caquetá in 1913. John Brown…

…Upper Amazon. John Brown was the last person to see the French Explorer jean Robuchon, who disappeared on the Rio Caquetá in 1913. John Brown spoke huitoto had lived with a huitoto woman for many years. At one point he knew the area into which we were…

…continue toward our chosen goal. It was only after I returned from the Amazon that I learned that it had been this same John Brown who had exposed the atrocities of the rubber barons in the putumayo. When Roger Casement then the British Consul in Rio De…

…Roger Casement then the British Consul in Rio De janeiro, came to Peru to investigate the atrocity stories, it was John Brown who returned to London with casement to give evidence to the royal high commission investigation. Jose Estacion Rivera, a Colombian…