He might as well have attempted to deface the moon.

They regarded him serenely with the stately smile they had worn so long, and which seemed to say, "Peck away, poor insect; we were not made to fear such as you; in ten-score dragging ages we have seen more of your kind than there are sands at your feet: have they left a blemish upon us ?" But I am forgetting the Jaffa Colonists.

At Jaffa we had taken on board some forty members of a very celebrated community.

They were male and female; babies, young boys and young girls; young married people, and some who had passed a shade beyond the prime of life.

I refer to the "Adams Jaffa Colony." Others had deserted before.