J.R.Euen's collection of short stories takes the reader from the streets of New York to the jungles of Africa. A steamship on Uganda's Lake Albert, a "floating Hotel," in the grand style, described by Ernest Hemingway as the "magnificence on water." The strange case of the man in the beekeeper's hat; a snake charmer in New York; a confidence trickster in Manila; a witch doctor in West Africa and a war veteran in London. These are some of the short stories in the collection.