In which the Colonel is conned, trailed, and quietly shown up — and remains, throughout, entirely confident that things have gone rather well.

The most purely comic of the four volumes: the animals of Southern Africa get the better of Colonel Aubrey Fitch-Harrington in the most direct way possible, while Cetshwayo watches with the patience of a man who has seen this particular film before.

01 — David

02 — The Lexicon

03 — The Eye

04 — The Study

05 — The Wrong Drawer

06 — The Arithmetic

07 — Fieldcraft

08 — The Fourth Call

09 — The Routes

10 — The Arrangement in Heat

11 — One Mass

12 — Continuous

13 — The Parallel

14 — The Wax

15 — Both Faces

16 — The Cause Unknown