all voices must be united in lamenting the most hideous and unprovoked assault imaginable , by a horde of violent and savage beasts , egged on by the jealousy of the native tribesmen , resentful of the rewards of honest christian labor ... laurence folded the paper , from bristol , and threw it beside the coffee-pot , with the caricature facing downwards : a bloated and snaggle-toothed creature labeled africa , evidently meant to be a dragon , and several unclothed natives of grinning black visage prodding with spears a small knot of women and children into its open maw , while the pitiful victims uplifted their hands in prayer and cried o have you no pity in a long banner issuing from their mouths .