John Gabriel Stedman

“Thus ended the expedition, which, from the beginning to the end, was a continued scene of hardships and misery.”

“Fortune, in a word, from that day, seemed to be conspiring against me.”

“The first object which struck my sight was a naked man, hanging by his ribs from a gallows.”

“To be a soldier, and a man of feeling, is a combination not always to be met with.”

“The history of the human species, in a word, is a sea of tears, and a perpetual warfare.”

“I now found myself in the most distressed situation that can be conceived.”

“But if such are the comforts of a soldier's life, what must be the miseries of it!”

“Having thus distinguished myself as a bloody neger-catcher, I was pointed out to the natives as an object of terror and admiration.”

“What is a man without a friend on some occasions; and what is a friend that is not a friend in all situations?”