Note 112 — Canto V.
Richard Francis Burton translation
12 a. Not in Camoens. “S’a Leone,” August, 1874. “What sights this lovely scene shall soon unbless, the simiad Negro swaying Africk strand; inhuman humans, slaves in Freedom’s dress; Ah me! what rude and wild and couthless band: Females with ne’er a ‘No,’ males dumb to ‘Yes,’ lust, superstition, ign’orance curse the land; fair dwelling-places where the foulest dwell; the Blackman’s Heaven, and the White Man’s Hell.” ↩