I only verify what others have seen.

The people are most uninteresting chiefly because they are surly to Americans and do not make you feel welcome.

I do not mean that I did not do well to come for I am more glad that I did than I can say only I have not, as I have been able to do before, found something that others have not seen.

I never expect to see such a country again unless in Africa.

If you leave the path for ten yards you would never get back to it except by accident and you could not get that far away unless you cut yourself a trail.