Genre:

Short Fiction

Subjects:

Ethnography, Human Species

    Introduces a short love story by describing Africa as abounding with evil, stating that '[n]o country produces so many poisonous plants, wild beasts, and venomous reptiles'. Continues: 'In the midst of these disgusting horrors, amongst those sanguinary monsters, of whom some sell their children, and others eat their captives, there is sometimes a natural justice found, real virtue, constancy in torments, and a generous contempt of death. Such examples, however rare, are sufficient to interest us for those degraded beings, to remind us that they are men'. (417)