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id: 14900
author: Nielsen, Peter, active 1922-1937
title: The Black Man's Place in South Africa
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sentence: 687
flesch: 45
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summary:
  [4] To most Europeans this smell seems to be more or less unpleasant but it must not be forgotten that it does not seem to affect the large numbers of white men of all nationalities who have found and still find pleasure in continued and intimate intercourse with African women. The seaports of Europe and America, and the Great War furnish too many sad examples of sexual ferocity by white men to allow us to think that they are in this respect inherently superior to the men of other races.


id: 49129
author: Henson, Josiah
title: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life Truth Stranger Than Fiction
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words: 38490
sentence: 1696
flesch: 74
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  The overseer seized my horse's bridle, and ordered me to alight, in the usual elegant phraseology addressed by such men to slaves. They encouraged me in my business enterprise, and the approval of such men was like balm to my soul.


id: 37732
author: Anonymous
title: The Emigrant's Lost Son; or, Life Alone in the Forest
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words: 44940
sentence: 1452
flesch: 62
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summary:
  Forest trees, in general, are described; those which may afford food to man are more frequently mentioned. One of the flashes brought down a mora tree near to where I stood, crushing the limbs of other trees as it fell.


id: 21453
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
title: Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors
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words: 63654
sentence: 2832
flesch: 80
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summary:
  Our first wishes were to see the wreck and old Mr Mugford, whom we agreed to dub Captain Mugford; and so, immediately after breakfast, we started out with Mr Clare to find those items of principal interest. We felt no hostility to Latin and Greek, for we were but reading of foreign lands and strange people across the ocean in old times, the occurrences of which were but storm-cast hulks like our old brig.


id: 34487
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
title: The Perils and Adventures of Harry Skipwith by Land and Sea
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sentence: 3581
flesch: 77
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summary:
  At other times we were not nearly so well off, as I shall have to recount. Water has often to be brought from great distances; deep trenches have to be dug, and the diggers have to work up to their middle in icy-cold water, with their heads exposed to the hot sun, down in deep holes in the beds of streams, or by the sides of streams, day after day, sometimes finding nothing, at other times only enough to enable them to procure food and lodging for the time.


id: 21085
author: Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
title: The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land
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sentence: 2910
flesch: 68
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  For a moment, after emerging on to the deck, all was terribly dark--as black as ink, as Mr McCarthy had said; but, the next instant, the whole awful scene was lit up by the most intense and vivid flash of lightning Mr Meldrum had ever beheld--the electric fluid being quite unaccompanied by any peal of thunder, although that might have been drowned by the continuous roar and shriek of the howling wind which appeared to have gone mad with the unbridled fury of a demon. What say you, Mr McCarthy, eh? I agree, sure, with Mr Meldrum, son.


id: 39061
author: Strang, Herbert
title: Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo
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sentence: 6742
flesch: 84
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  In two months from the departure of Elbel Jack was able to transfer his stores to the new settlement. And are there pigmies in that forest--little men, you know?


id: 22323
author: Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
title: Impressions of South Africa
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words: 176217
sentence: 5489
flesch: 59
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summary:
  I had not travelled with the view of writing a book; but the interest which the events just mentioned have aroused, and which is likely to be sustained for a good while to come, leads me to believe that the impressions of a traveller who has visited other new countries may be useful to those who desire to know what South Africa is really like, and why it makes a noise and stir in the world disproportionate to its small population. There are, of course, rough and ill-omened explorers and settlers in South Africa, as in other new countries: but having wandered a good deal, in different countries, on the outer edge of civilization, I was struck by the large proportion of well-mannered and well-educated men whom one came across in this tropical wilderness.


