Note 17 — Chapter I

I allude of course to the Bubé in his natural and unsophisticated state, not to him as corrupted by Europeans and by Krumen. Mr. Winwood Reade, the author of an amusing and picturesque book, “Savage Africa,” unfortunately visited only “Banapa,” one of the worst specimens of a Bubé village. As a rule, the Fernandian has little of the ignoble appearance that characterizes the true Negro.