Here man is put into his right place--a puny, insignificant, helpless being in a world that is too large for him.
"So," said Durnovo, returning to the subject which had never really left his thoughts, "you have come out here for pleasure ?" "Not exactly.

I came chiefly to make money, partly to dispel some of the illusions of my youth, and I am getting on very well.

Picture-book illusions they were.

The man who drew the pictures had never seen Africa." "This is no country for illusions.

Things go naked here--damned naked." "And only language is adorned ?" Durnovo laughed.