12.This long passage about the San—perhaps the nadir of the book's racism—is missing from both English translations and some popular Soviet and post-Soviet editions.
13.The nadir of the book's racism—Goncharov's encounter with the San in the Cape Colony jail—furnishes Mikhelson with triumphant evidence of Goncharov's profound humanism: the Russian writer proclaims that the San prisoner is, after all, a human being.