For Europeans of the day, colonies all over the world offered a convenient escape. Kipling wrote: Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren’t no Ten Commandments, an’ a man can raise a thirst. In the Congo the Ten Commandments were practiced even less than in most colonies.
“The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.”
(Proverbs 15:3)
