In the
west, the plot shall rise, by and by, from the low life of the
savanna and prairie up to the pure and lofty heights of Mount
Winnetou. In the east, it shall uplift itself from the dunes of
the desert up to the hight summit of Jebel Marah Durimeh.
Therefore, my first volume starts with the title "Durch die W?ste"
. The main character of all of these tales
was, for the sake of unity, supposed to be always the same, a
noble human soul in his earliest stages, who cleanses himself by
and by from all the dross of an anima-person. For America he was
supposed to be called Old Shatterhand, but for the orient he was
to bear the name Kara Ben Nemsi [a], because I took for granted
that he would have to be a German. He had to be introduced as the
one telling the stories, as the "first person narrator". This
first person is not real, but a fictional character. But even
though this "first person" does not exist, everything which is
being related about him shall still be based in reality and become
reality.
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