These contrasts create an overall impression that admits certain instances in which the everyday sub-Saharan African was found to be "a cleanly, decent creature" (Stanley, Through the Dark Continent 1:382), only to conclude that African people were "crafty, fraudful, deceiving, lying, thievish knaves taken as a whole, and seem to be born with an uncontrollable love of gaining wealth by robbery, violence, and murder" (1:408).