inferno-picture

Updated: July 4, 2025

All is but another inferno-picture, too common here in the dark places of the earth. It seems that in a very few minutes not a living being in that surprised village will be left alive. But now voices are raised in remonstrance, in command loud voices, authoritative voices ordering a cessation of the massacre, for this is no expedition of vengeance, but a slave-hunting party.

Bertram Mitford - The Sign of the Spider