Friday 31 August 2012
Handsome, cruel, and bloodthirsty
To begin with, you must understand that the Abyssinians are like no other Africans, being some kind of Semitic folk who came from Arabia in the far-off time, handsome, cruel, and bloodthirsty, but civilised beyond any in the continent bar the Egyptians . . .
Flashman on the March, p.22, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.
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