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Though travelled, I have never had the luck to

Trace up those shuffling negroes, Nile or Niger,

To that impracticable place Timbuktu,

Where Geography finds no one to oblige her

With such a chart as may be safely stuck to⁠—

For Europe ploughs in Afric like “bos piger:”

But if I had been at Timbuktu, there

No doubt I should be told that black is fair.