Savage

“Oh, reader, had you been at my side on this day in Ujiji, how eloquently could be told the nature of this man’s work! Had you been there but to see and hear! His lips gave me the details; lips that never lie. I cannot repeat what he said…”

— Henry Morton Stanley, 1872

“Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.”

— Robert E. Howard, 1935

“The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.”

— George Kimble, 1951