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The third man on the staff was a Sierra Leone nigger,
who maintained that his name was Henry Price.
the natives down the river had given him the ...
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worship of evil spirits.
presented as fact
His wife was a negress from Loanda, very large and very noisy.
storehouse
he's in charge of the ivory
cross
the Evil Spirit that rules the lands under the equator.
under the eye and guidance of their superiors.
whose existence is only rendered possible through the high organization of civilized crowds.
But the contact with pure unmitigated savagery,
with primitive nature and primitive man, brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.
whose discomposing intrusion excites the imagination and tries the civilized nerves of the foolish and the wise alike.
sense of danger which one half suspects to be imaginary.
“Poor devil!”
religious frame of association
entering into the spirit
evil spirits set against Christi a nity
Just sit still and gather in the ivory those savages will bring.
to put up curtains, make their house habitable and pretty;
while their chiefs bargained for hours with Makola over an elephant tusk.
Did you ever such a face? Oh, the funny brute!
Brought any bone?
fetish,
voodoo doll. store room called the fetish. undermines European civilisation
they are rather aromatic.
What a fellow has got to put up with in this dog of a country!
Colonial Expansion”
It spoke much of the rights and duties of civilization, of the sacredness of the civilizing work, and extolled the merits of those who went about bringing light, and faith and commerce to the dark places of the earth.
light into the darkness. sacredness of.the colonised world.
Civilization, my boy, and virtue
were the first civilized men to live in this very spot!
They seemed to forget their dead ...
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“It made me squint, leaning over so much.
chief
chief and savage put together
He was a gray-headed savage,
The two whites had a liking for that old and incomprehensible creature,
indistinguishably alike
all blacks look the same
immortal.
gobilas belief
they behaved just like that other white creature that had hidden itself in a hole in the ground.
and yet resembling the speech of civilized men.
Anyway, it is a different kind of gibberish to what we ever heard.
Kayerts and Carlier agreed that the nigger had had too much palm wine.
(without having any idea of a month in particular and only a very faint notion of time in general),
Belonging to a tribe from a very distant part of the land of darkness and sorrow,
in which they were right.
regretting the festive incantations, the sorceries, the human sacrifices of their own land;
respected magicians,
and other ties supposed generally...
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Besides, the rice rations served out by the Company did n...
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for nothing is easier to certain savages than suicide—and
to a warlike tribe with filed teeth,
and went on stupidly living through disea...
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The two whites had practically very little control over them.
