May we not […] consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human evil?

[…] throwing them first backward and then allowing them to occupy their country again—a policy which was neither subjugative of the Kaffirs on the one hand, nor humane nor conciliatory towards them on the other.

I could tell you ten things about a bee or an anty-mire—but a goose—I'd 'no though but she do hev some curious ways.

Parakeet Isle or Yingwuchou: in the middle of the river to the south-west of Hanyang. It disappeared during the Ming period to re-emerge in the Ching dynasty in Kang Hsi’s reign. It became famous in the Han dynasty when a great feast was held there and parakeets brought in.