Excerpt from The Africans as I Saw Them, Their Customs, Traditions and Modes of Living (a Lecture) Being a Plain and Truthful Exposition in Comparison to Our Civilization
This little book is the outgrowth of my six years of African experiences; the lecture contained herein on "The Africans As I saw Them," is the product of my personal observation while acting in the capacity of an African trader, soldier, sailor, prospector and all-around African adventurer.
Already has the lecture been heard in hundreds of public halls and colored churches, and, owing to the many new instructive lessons given on the Africans as they really exist I have been asked by many of my listeners at the close of the lectures, to have the work compiled into book form, which I decided to do at the close of the serial. While writing it out I endeavored to avoid the routes that lead to impossibility and incomprehensibility; a plain truthful and humorous account of the Africans' customs, traditions and modes of living are herein stipulated; the lecture was written in a style in order to blend instruction with amusement; no matter how increditable the narrative may appear to some, it is, nevertheless, true: down to the minutest detail, there is no embellishment about it as the facts were written out of a journal which I kept expressly for the occasion; every night while in camp, or aboard ship, or, while in my cross-country marches, or traveling aboard our steam launch Africana, I made entries of events in my journal as I really saw them.
In short, at the close of my lecture, I have, as I promised, applied myself to the task of revising the original journal, and after a few days of patient labor, I have ventured without any claim to literary pretention, to lay it before the reading public in its present form. Here, then to the "Africans As I Saw Them Their Customs, Traditions and Modes of Living."
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