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Captain Riley's Narrative of his Captivity in Africa was rejected by many as half-fictitious: his sufferings were greater than human nature could bear, and the Arabs of the desert could never lead the life described.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert