Sounds Familiar…
This is when a man with the title of the 14th Earl of Streatham, William Charles Mildin, comes into the picture. According to an article by journalist Thomas Llewellyn Jones in a 1959 issue of Man’s Adventure magazine, Mildin gave readers a shocking tale of survival and primates that sounded all too familiar.
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According to Jones, William Charles Mildin spent 15 years living in the African wilderness between 1868 and 1883. Mildin’s story had only come to light after family documents were made public after the death of his son in 1937. Jones wrote that Mildin left behind 1,500 pages of memoirs. His first entry: “I was only 11 when, in a boyish fit of anger and pique, I ran away from home and obtained a berth as cabin boy aboard the four-masted sailing vessel, Antilla, bound for African ports-of-call and the Cape of Good Hope…”