 Schweitzer wrote a book, The Primeval Forest, while Coquard wrote numerous articles and the Cronique d’Abeokuta, a history of the mission.Schweitzer and Coquard referred to the relationship between Europeans and Africans in the same way in their writing, calling Europeans “older brothers” and “elder brothers” respectively.While neither man was overtly racist, this language has racist undertones implying a belief in the superiority of whites over blacks.