“It is the natural fault of young people to think too well of mankind [...].”

Book I, ch. II, The Passage from Madeira to the Cape Verd Islands, and from thence to the Cape of Good Hope.
A Voyage Round the World (1777)

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German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, … 1754–1794

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