He has gone in disgrace to fight Mirambo: his father is disconsolate, naturally.

Lewale has been merciful.
When endeavouring to give some account of the slave-trade of East Africa, it was necessary to keep far within the truth, in order not to be thought guilty of exaggeration; but in sober seriousness the subject does not admit of exaggeration.

To overdraw its evils is a simple impossibility.

The sights I have seen, though common incidents of the traffic, are so nauseous that I always strive to drive them from memory.
In the case of most disagreeable recollections I can succeed, in time, in consigning them to oblivion, but the slaving scenes come back unbidden, and make me start up at dead of night horrified by their vividness.

To some this may appear weak and unphilosophical, since it is alleged that the whole human race has passed through the process of development.