My Short Career In Dueling
January, 1967
This Big Envelope arrived from Polynesia and in it I found a copy of a French-language newspaper published on the island of Tahiti. Half the front page and all of the second were devoted to a wild and scurrilous attack on me.I had spent a winter in Tahiti and written a book about my experiences, and now the editor of this paper, Monsieur Philippe Mazellier, was accusing me of gross inaccuracies, of vast and deliberate untruths, of malicious libels against the island that I happen to love more th...
