Doubtless you possess neither their science nor their genius, but perhaps in the sight of God you are their superiors.

I believe that you are simple and good.

As I went round your island I saw no image of murder, no sign of carnage, no enemies' heads or scalps hung from a lofty pole or nailed to the doors of your villages.

You appear to me to have no arts and not to work in metals.

But your hearts are pure and your hands are innocent, and the truth will easily enter into your souls." Now what he had taken for men of small stature but of grave bearing were penguins whom the spring had gathered together, and who were ranged in couples on the natural steps of the rock, erect in the majesty of their large white bellies.