It is a strange thing why in Europe certain animals should be considered fit to eat and certain animals altogether rejected, and this without the slightest reason.

Horses and donkeys are as clean feeders as oxen and sheep.

Dogs, cats, and rats are far cleaner than pigs and ducks.

The flesh of the one set is every bit as good as that of the other, and yet the poorest peasant would turn up his nose at them.

Here sheep and oxen, horses and donkeys, will not live, and the natives very wisely make the most of the animals which can do so." Frank was soon tired of Bonny, and was glad to hear that they would start the next day for Fernando Po in a little steamer called the Retriever.