mombin

Updated: May 15, 2025

For the want of human beings fit for all that beauty, man is alone to blame; and when we saw approach us, as the only priest of such a temple, a wild brown man, who feeds his hogs on Moriche fruit and Mombin plums, and whose only object was to sell us an ant-eater's skin, we thought to ourselves knowing the sad history of the West Indies what might this place have become, during the three hundred and fifty years which have elapsed since Columbus first sailed round it, had men calling themselves Christian, calling themselves civilised possessed any tincture of real Christianity, of real civilisation?

Charles Kingsley - At Last