Everyone has known of poor little foundlings in England, but our mothers are not credited with less affection than she-bears.
I would say to missionaries, Come on, brethren, to the real heathen.

You have no idea how brave you are till you try.

Leaving the coast tribes, and devoting yourselves heartily to the savages, as they are called, you will find, with some drawbacks and wickednesses, a very great deal to admire and love.

Many statements made about them require confirmation.
You will never see women selling their infants: the Arabs never did, nor have I.An assertion of the kind was made by mistake.
Captive children are often sold, but not by their mothers.

Famine sometimes reduces fathers to part with them, but the selling of children, as a general practice, is quite unknown, and, as Speke put it, quite a mistake.
_25th and 26th May, 1872._--Cold weather.