Learned authors and skilful anamotists, have passed their lives discussing facts as clear as daylight, and in dissecting the bodies of men and animals in order to prove that I, who am now writing, belong to the race of Ourang-Outangs! . . . For myself, I see strong reasons to believe that the white men are the real descendants of Cain; for I still find in them that primitive hatred, that spirit of envy and of pride, and that passion for riches, which the Scriptures inform us led him to sacrifice his brother.