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118 ‘the clergy are’: Montgomery, Foreign Missions, pp. 1–2.
119 ‘pathetic … to see’: Griff Jones, Britain and Nyasaland, quoted in Pakenham, Out in the Noonday Sun, p. 104.
119 ‘I am better’: John Hine MSS, 7–9 October 1910, quoted in Pakenham, Out in the Noonday Sun, pp. 109–10.
120 ‘I can think’: Quoted in Perham, Lugard, p. 104.
120 ‘To give peace’: Churchill, The River War, vol. I, pp. 18–19.
121 ‘From the mutilated’: Quoted in ‘The Lost Arctic Voyagers’, Household Words, 2 December 1854.
122 ‘the savage has’: Ibid.
122 ‘The better educated’: Ibid.
122 ‘heroic little monkey’: Darwin, The Descent of Man, vol. II, pp. 796–7.
123 ‘Survival of the’: Rusden, ‘Labour and Capital’, pp. 67–83.
123 ‘an iron-handed and’: F. J. McLynn, Burton: Snow upon the Desert, quoted in Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, p. 154.
124 ‘the very abomination’: Burton, Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po, vol. II, p. 295.
124 ‘Except some knowledge’: Hunt, On the Negro’s Place in Nature, p. 27.
124 ‘This premature union’: Ibid., p. 8.
125 ‘the analogies are’: Ibid., pp. 51–2.
125 ‘my statement of’: Ibid., Dedication.
125 ‘Our Bristol and’: Ibid., p. 53.
125 ‘hierarchy of civilisation’: Report by Commission VII on missions and governments to the Edinburgh conference in 1910, quoted in Brian Stanley, ‘Church, State and the Hierarchy of Civilisation’, in Porter, ed., The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, p. 65.
126 ‘the form of Africa’: David Clement Scott, Life and Work in British Central Africa, quoted in Andrew C. Ross, ‘Christian Missions and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Change in Attitudes to Race: The African Experience’, in Porter, ed., The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, p. 85.
126 ‘Watching that the’: Ogilvie, Our Empire’s Debt to Missions, p. 217.
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128 ‘the matter [had]’: Haggard, She, p. 118.
128 ‘This beauty, with’: Ibid., pp. 158–9.
128 ‘I am but’: Ibid., p. 193.
129 ‘I can safely’: Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines, p. 10.
130 ‘I now commenced’: Quoted in James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, p. 222.
130 ‘to prostitute themselves’: Sellon, Annotations on the Sacred Writings of the Hindüs, pp. 55–6.
130 ‘not very much’: Ibid.
130 ‘the handsomest Mohammedan’: Sellon, The Ups and Downs of Life, pp. 52–3.
131 ‘if a young’: Quoted in Leigh, ed., The Erotic Traveller, p. 24.
132 Colonel James Skinner: Hyam, Empire and Sexuality, p. 115.
132 The records show: William Dalrymple, ‘White mischief’, Guardian, 9 December 2002.
133 ‘She keeps house’: Burton, The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, vol. I, p. 135.
133 ‘born in India’: Quoted in James, Raj, p. 218.
134 ‘insinuating manners and’: Quoted in ibid., p. 219.
134 ‘eastern princess’: Garnet Wolseley to Richard Wolseley, 7 August 1859, Wolseley Private Papers, Hove, 163/1, quoted in Kochanski, Sir Garnet Wolseley, p. 24.
135 ‘more perfect than’: Shore, Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, vol. II, p. 170.
135 ‘standing for half’: Quoted in James, Raj, p. 225.
136 ‘In the hot’: Quoted in Allen, Plain Tales from the British Empire, p. 155.
137 ‘observed that those’: S. Sneade Browne, Home Letters written from India, 1828–41, quoted in Hyam, Empire and Sexuality, p. 117.
138 ‘Dogs and other’: Sharp, Goodbye India, p. 138.
139 ‘hot-weather housekeeping’: Quoted in Barr, The Memsahibs, p. 99.
139 ‘The menu was’: Forster, A Passage to India, p. 43.
140 ‘Dirt, illimitable, inconceivable’: Steel and Gardiner, The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, p. 86.
140 ‘the Indian servant’: Ibid., p. 12.
140 ‘Never do work’: Ibid., p. 15.
141 the grass widow: Diver, The Englishwoman in India, p. 24.
141 ‘deranged menstruation’: Quoted in Ardis and Lewis, eds., Women’s Experience of Modernity, p. 146.
142 ‘die out about’: Quoted in MacMillan, Women of the Raj, p. 99.
142 ‘The House of Desolation’: Ricketts, Rudyard Kipling, p. 15.
142 ‘When the time’: Ross, Blindfold Games, p. 69.
142 ‘What