sciocco

Updated: May 31, 2025

Of course, a man of my stamp was considered by them either "un sciocco" or "un matto." It is the misfortune of Africa to be surrounded by a cordon of vitiated races, half-caste and mongrel breeds, propagated from adventurers and convicts from the other continents of the world. So that Africa learns nothing but the vices of civilization from its contact with the rest of the world.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846