John Boyes, King of the Wa-Kikuyu

"John Boyes...has had as many hair-raising adventures as any one in the world who has lived to tell the tale, for at one time was virtually king of the savage Kikuyu tribe." -Boston Globe, Nov. 9, 1912

"John Boys...was the actual controlling power for several years in a great region into which before no white man had been allowed...he entered the hostile...