To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.
“It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.”
“I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.”