Note 359 — THE MAN OF AL-YAMAN AND HIS SIX SLAVE-GIRLS.
Richard Francis Burton translation
Here we have the naked legend of the negro’s origin; one of those nursery tales in which the ignorant of Christendom still believe. But the deduction from the fable and the testimony to the negro’s lack of intelligence, though unpleasant to our ignorant negrophils, are factual and satisfactory.