Jules Verne

the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp.

He also describes her as – ahem – 'as fair as a European'. (French: Cette femme était jeune, blanche comme une Européenne.) Note that the French reads blanche, i.e., 'white'.

He describes his lone black character in the most appalling terms. This includes various racially charged stereotypes. ... (Grimacier, gourmand, paresseux et surtout d'une poltronnerie superbe).

In fact, the anger of one of the children on the island with an expression like 'What else will happen to us if this Black person becomes our leader in the future!' also bothered me.

Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts! When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures...

I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!

That Indian, sir, is an inhabitant of an oppressed country; and I am still, and shall be, to my last breath, one of them!