Excerpt from Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa, and Its Islands: Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Madeira, Canary, and Cape Verd Islands; Their Climates, Inhabitants, and Productions; Accounts of Places, Peoples, Customs, Trade, Etc;, Etc;, Etc The news brought to mind my boyhood's dreams of Morocco; and they were to be realized in part, for I should, at least, look upon her shores, and shake hands with her sun-burnt children but how far my romantic ideas Of the half-civilized character had been modified, judge ye, who have had two years of contact with the ugliness of man's savage condition on the shores of Africa; and how far my ardour for adventure had been cooled, ye can imagine, who have Spent a year on that dreary station, away from country and friends, and wife and little ones. There is, however, a degree Of romance inseparable from the Moorish character; so we rejoiced in the pros peet of breaking in on the monotony of our cruise, by spending a day with the Barbarians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.