"He also describes her as – ahem – 'as fair as a European'. (French: Cette femme était jeune, blanche comme une Européenne.) Note that the French reads blanche, i.e., 'white'."

"They first passed through the “black town,” with its narrow streets, its miserable, dirty huts, and squalid population; then through the “European town,” which presented a relief in its bright brick m…"

"The South will rise again—the Confederates were gentlemen, the Yankees shopkeepers."

"The Hindus are enslaved by their ridiculous superstitions."

"We must never despair."