I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .

The rest of the tradition concerns the bluff habits of John and his sons, the interjealousy of the seven young men on the question of precedence, and the whimsical way taken by the old man for evading a direct settlement […]

And when he would be sayin' good-bye to them from the brudge, he would chust take off his hat and give it a shoogle, and put it on again; his manners wass complete.

The Anglo-Saxon Charles Darwin, underspoken and gentlemanly, impersonal and asexual and blankly observant in his writings, was a hero in teeming, passionate, polyglot Guayaquil because he was the inspiration for a tourist boom.