""Hope Farm was in reality the mission station Ksberg.... The founder, August Prozesky (1840-1915), was the original Mfundisi of these stories. It was he who recorded them in their earliest form in the German journal he kept.... His great-grandson and biographer, Oskar Prozesky, translated the anecdotes into English from the original manuscrips and has given them, in some cases, a more satisfactory form as self-contained short stories"--P. 3.