Quotes by John Gabriel Stedman
“Thus ended the expedition, which, from the beginning to the end, was a continued scene of hardships and misery.”— John Gabriel Stedman
“To be a soldier, and a man of feeling, is a combination not always to be met with.”— John Gabriel Stedman
“The history of the human species, in a word, is a sea of tears, and a perpetual warfare.”— John Gabriel Stedman
“The first object which struck my sight was a naked man, hanging by his ribs from a gallows.”— John Gabriel Stedman
“Having thus distinguished myself as a bloody neger-catcher, I was pointed out to the natives as an object of terror and admiration.”— John Gabriel Stedman