In Africa (a quarter of the world)

Men's skins are black, their hair is crisp and curl'd,

And somewhere there, unknown to public view,

A mighty city lies, called Timbuctoo.

Bambooz-ling

The natural history.

There stalks the tiger,—there the lion roars, 5

Who sometimes eats the luckless blackamoors;

All that he leaves of them the monster throws