(Hi 'li " | Mr Fovft&fc? rare knaok of inventing epithets. Once he, described a trouble* some opponent as being " partly a fenian, j and partly a lunatic, " and more lately, in a speech delivered at Durham on the Buigarian atrocities, he thus referred to th c , Turks :— " The character of the Turk had something in it so detestable and repugnant that history could not describe him. It was .almost impossible to describe hiaj, and bis (Mr Fox's) opinion was that he was the missing link between humanity* and the gorilla, whioh distinguished evolutionists had so long been seeking.
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Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 64, 15 January 1877, Page 2
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97Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 64, 15 January 1877, Page 2
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