Excerpt from The Barbary Coast There comes another feeling, a doubt Whether in all this gay scene there is more of gladness or of sadness. Poor old Africa! I love her for her very woes: and if I sometimes drop into an undertone, and, in drawing with a free hand these African pictures, give the dark back ground, with the lighter figures ou the canvas, it is to turn, if I may, the eyes of our more favored countrymen to a distant shore, that they may look with tenderness and with pity on a land of so much beauty and so much ...
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Excerpt from The Barbary Coast There comes another feeling, a doubt Whether in all this gay scene there is more of gladness or of sadness. Poor old Africa! I love her for her very woes: and if I sometimes drop into an undertone, and, in drawing with a free hand these African pictures, give the dark back ground, with the lighter figures ou the canvas, it is to turn, if I may, the eyes of our more favored countrymen to a distant shore, that they may look with tenderness and with pity on a land of so much beauty and so much sorrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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