Which of the following is a reason that people of the 18th century wrote travel narratives?

i. to create business relationships with people from other cultures

ii. to set up military conquests

iii. to report on religious conversions of non-christians

i only
i and ii
ii and iii
i, ii, and iii

 the answer is A   I only 

The answer is "he was bad enough in all conscience, but the devil himself could not temp him to turn slave-trader. satirical is a synonym for sarcastic. so when the author says that tom walker could not be tempted by the devil he does not literally mean "the devil" but he means that he is too morally upright to become a slave-trader.