The British thief of Parvati

We are in a London bar, and a veteran thief tells his friends one of his adventures on the other side of the world. The group listens attentively, the presence of the speaker and his unruly voice demand their respect. The person recounting the events was named Henry B. Lorenz. I do not know his age at the time he narrates this story, but I know that in his youth he participated in the First World War, where he didn't learn anything. Later he enlisted as a crew member on a ship captained by a man of unsettling reputation. Thus he traveled the world and its countries, staining each of them with his misdeeds.