same thing then we'd be competing when we returned to Tangier with our goods, and prices for him would be driven down. So the wretch didn't even tell me of the possibilities. I did sell some of my souvenirs at considerable profit, but I don't particularly plan to ever return to that part of the world so I'm keeping most as mementos. What would you need to go into this "business"? Well, first, enough to make your trip and a couple of hundred dollars with which to do your shopping. The more shopping money you had the better, of course. I have a feeling that if Gerry had bought the several gold items we saw, he could have netted really tremendous profits, but on the other hand he knows more about it than I do and he made a point of specializing in the cheaper jewelry and handicrafts. It would be best, too, to line up some customers before taking off. Gerry had some old stand-bys which would take just about everything he brought them, including the above named African Art Shop on Pasteur Boulevard in Tangier. I imagine that even larger profits could be made by bringing such native art items back to New York or other American centers, but then you run into the import license complications. Besides, you'd have the cost of the trip back and forth across the Atlantic. Best deal here would be to line up your American markets before leaving, and ship the items you purchase. CASE HISTORY No. 2. While we're on the subject of Africa and adventure we had better tell the story of Schyler Jones who gives this run-down on his life: "I was born in Wichita, Kansas, on 7th February, 1960. Business kept the family traveling to such a degree that by my fifth birthday I had passed through all the 48 states, Canada, Mexico, Central America and the Hawaiian Islands. Formal schooling interrupted this interesting program but at the first opportunity I took it up again and sailed for Europe at the age of 20. A second-hand bicycle and my thumb carried me through fifteen countries. A newspaper job in Paris was abandoned when I had the chance to go to Africa in 1981.I have never been free of that continent since —nor would I wish to be."
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