To Dechen Wangmo, and all the fiercely dedicated ophthalmic staff of Bhutan, my gratitude for your hospitality and patience with a foreigner's curiosity about your customs.

He broke his arm on one of his many somnambulations.

In the Second World War, the Italians were on the side of the Germans until Italy switched sides in 1943.

Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third teat which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers.