Bassa the Moor
Name and Quote from a character in the novel "Pirate Latitudes" by Michael Crichton. "He was called the Moor for reasons long since forgotten. It was generally agreed that the Moor was not Moorish at all but had come from the region of Africa called Nubia, a desert land along the Nile, populated by enormous black men." Bassa left the Nile to become one of the greatest 'Lion Tamers' in the World.