To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name,

To live in mankind, far, far more ... than to live in a name.

THE CONGO[[35]]

(A Study of the Negro Race)

I. Their Basic Savagery

Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,

Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable,

Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, |A deep rolling bass.|

Pounded on the table,

Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,