Yet the tradition is not only unsupported, but equivocal.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
He was a proud man, overflowing with vanity, hard-hearted, loving only himself, conceited, self-sufficient; but he is dead, I don't mean to speak ill of him, although he left me in a decidedly equivocal position.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
"Not exactly-neyther one nor t'other," was the equivocal reply.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid