1. Life and literary activity of Charles Kingsley. Historical fiction genre in Literature

Chapter 27. How Salvation Yeo Found his Little Maid Again

Words to look up: vehemence, supplicating. I think the phrase "upset all but old Yeo" could mean that it made them all laugh, not that they got angry at her. Quashie (or Quashi) is a Caribbean word for an unsophisticated or gullible black man. (Obviously not a word to be used now, but that's what it meant.) Mutato nomine means the name has been changed; he had taken a song about Sunderland and changed it to Bideford.
Copywork: From that day Ayacanora was a new creature . . . she regained all her former stateliness, and with it a self-restraint, a temperance, a softness which she had never shown before. Her dislike to Cary and Jack vanished. Modest and distant as ever, she now took delight in learning from them about England and English people; and her knowledge of our customs gained much from the somewhat fantastic behaviour which Amyas thought good, for reasons of his own, to assume toward her. He assigned her a handsome cabin to herself, always addressed her as madam, and told Cary, Brimblecombe, and the whole crew that as she was a lady and a Christian, he expected them to behave to her as such.
Narration and Discussion: Kingsley says something controversial here, trying to explain Ayacanora's changed behaviour: "For the mind of the savage, crushed by the sight of the white man's superior skill, and wealth, and wisdom, loses at first its self-respect; while his body, pampered with easily obtained luxuries, instead of having to win the necessaries of life by heavy toil, loses its self-helpfulness; and with self-respect and self-help vanish all the savage virtues, few and flimsy as they are, and the downward road toward begging and stealing, sottishness and idleness, is easy, if not sure." What would you say to Kingsley in response? Are there other explanations for her unpleasant new attitude on board the ship?
Why is Amyas even more bothered now that he knows Ayacanora's true parentage?
Why do you think she has stopped singing?