Kuling perched dramatically above a gorge of the Yangtze which could be seen far below, the view being rather like that from Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga or Murren in Switzerland, magnified several times.

So long as the African slave-trade lasted, the importation of slaves being presumably cheaper than breeding them, the industries run by slave labor were economically in much the same position as our own sweated trades […]

[…] And at full cry pursued the tusky boar.

The figure is 1,267,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. In layperson's terms, that's a little over 1.2 nonillion ancestors in the 100th generation.