The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton

This is a sea story book. Like most Germans of any education whom one meets in the South Seas, or anywhere else, he was a good native linguist, though, like all his countrymen, he did not understand natives like Englishmen or Americans understand wild races. He had no regard nor sympathy for them, and looked upon even the highly intelligent Polynesian peoples with whom he had had much dealing as mere 'niggers'--to study whose feelings, sentiments, opinions or religious belief, was beneath the consideration of an European.