his life than you can find in the lives of any
hundred ordinary men. Errol squalled his first
challenge to the world on a June day of 1909. His
father, professor of biology at Queen's University,
looked upon the infant, marvelled at the processes
of the science he taught, and wondered how much the
baby had inherited of its ancestor, Fletcher Christian,
who led the mutiny on the Bounty. Papa was soon to see,
for young Errol wasn't yet out of his 'teens before he was
a swaggering, roistering, come-what-may and be-damned-to-
the-consequences adventurer. Still in his 'teens, he
started out to sample what there was in life t make it tangy.
In 1928, he went to Amsterdam, as one of the British Olympic
boxing team. That taste of the world made him want more -
the next thing he knew, he found himself over in New
Guinea. He asked the British territorial constabulary
officials there if they needed some help. They looked
at his six-feet-two of young brawn, his keen eyes and
his cocky grin and said Yes. And so he spent some time
