Status Updates From In Coldest Africa

"From the Forward, These facts may be stated in such a manner that they appear humorous or even fanciful, but they are nevertheless facts"- S. A. Barrett, Director, Milwaukee Public Museum As the author himself says on page ix "I have the faculty of making the truth sound like a lie. I have never done this purposefully-it is quite natural."

On top of Mount Baker in a hut they found the Duke's calling card, and after taking a picture they left a record of their expedition and five and a half tablets of solid Meta fuel with a Kodak autographic pencil. They also left a cake of Palmolive soap for the next explorers.

When the aneroid fell, it had fallen face upward in the deep snow narrowly missing a large rock. The only effect of the fall was instead of registering the actual fall from Oliver's pocket, say, three feet, the sensitive instrument registered a fall of six thousand feet. No doubt it felt as if it had fallen six thousand feet and registered its feelings accordingly.

"I collected some of the moths, and have since heard from the British Museum that they are an entirely new species and will be named after me! I'm dying to see my name in Latin."

Finally! The fallen forest!

Sim the Man-Loving lion sounds very interesting! I'd like to read more of him.

Butterflies that fly against the wind?! It's true, this author writes facts and makes it sound like fiction.

Ewww I'll never be able to comfort myself that it's just the dead snakes nerves twitching again! Their brain stretches the length of them, that's why it takes them so long to die...

Perkins, who is a scientist and an authority on mammals, announced that his chicken was a mammal of some small variety. I had already eaten and enjoyed mine, so if the chicken was really monkey, then I like monkey.