vile-conditioned

Updated: June 22, 2025

It would be useless, as well as painful, to narrate in detail all the daily and hourly incidents which occurred in the next few days whilst I was detained here by the artful and dishonest machinations of this vile-conditioned man, from whom I could never get one true word, and whose absence, although I was striving to induce his coming to me, really seemed a relief.

John Hanning Speke - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile