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Tales of Captain Salgari - Flyer

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New flyer.  The tiger is an old ClipArt from a previous version of Microsoft Publisher.  ___________________________________________________________________________________ Personal Notes : It is said that the stories written by Emilio Salgari are stories he would hear from sailors, when he would go to visit the dock. His best and most known work, " Sandokan, The Tiger of Malaysia " has been proven to bear resemblance to true historical facts, starting with the firstly-thought-of-as-fictional island, Mompracem (currently known as Kuraman Island), and with the strong impression that Sandokan is no other than a fictional representation of Syarif Osman, who ruled Marudu (north of Borneo) (I recommend you go  here  for more information about Sandokan or Syarif Osman. Miss Bianca has done a marvelous job in finding, gathering, and translating information about Salgari and his works, especially those concerning the character of Sandokan). Going by this, I strongly suspect ...