he natives are 'treated with all brotherly and friendly affection in the world? but this is only expressed by 'trading with them for theor fish, venison, Buffalo skins and little rarities?. The colony is only recognisableto the Western material need and not for its own being. Even the pre-lapsarian native indians representeing to the narrator an absolute idea of the first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin? are seen through the eye of Orientalism, the 'tranquility? they display os due to theirignorance? ofreligion? andlaw?.
             In Ooronoko the protagonist, a black slave, is rendered intelligible to the English reading public, through the lens of a heroic discourse. Ooronoko can only be appreciated asnobel? if he conforms to Western ideals of nobel, thus Ooronoko displays 'those refined notions of true honour, that absolute genorosity and that softness thatbwas capable of the highest passions of love and gallantry?. Hehas nothing of barbarity in his nature? this presupposes that most of his race do possess thisbarbarity?
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