Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

HUMANITY, n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.