Born I wasbut how, when, or where I cannot say; so I must leave the reader to accept the assertionper se, and believe it if he will. One thing is equally certain, the fact of my birth is not one atom less veracious than the reality of these memoirs, and if the intelligent student of, these pages wonders how it came to pass that one in my walkor perhaps, I should have said jumpin life, became pos- sessed of the learning, observation and power of committing to memory the whole of the wonderful facts and disclosures I am about to relate.