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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Mombaza, and Quiloa, and Melind, And Sofala, thought Ophir, to the realm Of Congo, and Angola farthest South. Paradise Lost, xi. 399. The African race is an indiarubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground the higher it will rise. bantu pROVtKB. We negroes are one in racial unity with you whites ? different yet the same. A crocodile is hatched from an egg?and a flying bird from an The Emperor Mushidi. The Earth is a beehive: we all enter by the same door but live in different cells. Bantu Proverb. CHAPTER I First Fears Justified J/f/' HEREIN the reader, landing at Benguella, finds himself faced with Africa s first and final law ? to put down a lot one must put up with a lot. LET us begin at the beginning. Coasting down West Africa the year of grace 1889, the first thing to strike you in the ever-shifting drama is the sarcastic significance of Milton's mention of these lands in such a poem as Paradise Lost, the Realm of Congo and Angola farthest South. For, as he safely guessed, Paradise is lost, very much lost in these latitudes. There is tropical treachery even in those poor brown palms you see flitting past, for where is defeat so common for a white man as just there on those sands of the seaboard, the air all a-dance with heat ? A taunting palm over a tin shanty, symbol not of victory but disaster. Each and every solar ray giving the exile two knocks: the first, en route to earth, striking the man on its way down, the second getting him again on the rebound from the sparklingsand. Each day two burning darts per ray?and how many billion rays per day ? Take the negro now and watch withal a curious thing. I mean that hard, impersonal stare of these bottomless- eyed natives, not the intense, penetrating thing of Europe. You might be ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217305884
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 118
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217305881
  • Publisher Date: 18 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 227 gr


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