The Treasure of the Lake

There is a certain monastery in Natal where I have been made welcome from time to time, among whose brethren was a very learned monk, now "gone down", as the Zulus say, who, although our faiths were different, honoured me with his confidence upon many matters, and I think I may add with his friendship. Brother Ambrose, as he was called in religion-what his real name may have been I do not know-a Swede by birth, would have been an archaeologist, also an anthropologist pure and simple, had he not …