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Nothing surprised Sanders except the ignorance of the average stay-at-home Briton on all matters pertaining to the savage peoples of Africa. Queer things happened in the "black patch"--so the coast officials called. Sanders' territory--miraculous, mysterious things, but Sanders was never surprised. He had dealings with folks who believed in ghosts and personal devils, and he sympathized with them, realizing that it is very difficult to ascribe all the evils of life to human agencies.
Sanders was an unquiet man; or so his constituents thought him, and a little mad; this also was the native view. Worst of all, there was no method in his madness.