They are fluent talkers, but their ideas are borrowed.

They are absolutely without originality, absolutely without inventive power.

Living among white men, their imitative faculties enable them to attain a considerable amount of civilization.

Left alone to their own devices they retrograde into a state little above their native savagery." This was said as, after having fixed upon a boat and literally fought their way into it, they were rowed towards the shore.

On landing Frank was delighted with the greenness of everything.