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the abnormal condition of the blood in this experiment, we can 

 with some assurance conclude that blood in the tissues will 

 have power to reduce actinic and heat energy to actual heat, and 

 absorb all light rays but red. Thus the reddening of the skin 

 on exposure to heat is really nature coming to the rescue. It 

 not only flushes the sweat glands, but its flowing streams gather 

 up the heat and carry it to other parts of the body to be 

 dissipated. 



The Tropics must ever remain the home of 

 the Coloured Man. 



Tlie white man, in his natural home, lives under the happiest 

 circumstances for the condition of physical adornment. He 

 inherits all the charm of variety, while his less favoured coloured 

 brethren are burdened with the brand of monotony, and suffer 

 by comparison. But let the pale face wander, then, the fairer 

 his skin, the more susceptible is it to the ills that such flesh 

 is heir to. The white man is truly the product of green fields. 

 Born in areas where the hours of sunshine are duly recorded, lie 

 lives a strenuous life ; but when he leaves his native land his 

 capacity for labour varies inversely as he nears the equator or 

 the poles. 



On reflection the above statements should now be obvious, but 

 it may be of advantage to adduce some further evidence in their 

 support. Tte Panama is a noble tribute to medical skill ; there 

 the death rate of the white population has been reduced to half 

 that which it is in New York ; yet the 6000 whites in the 

 Panama are the black man's burden, as they are everywhere else 

 in the tropics. Cornish's " History of the Panama " and Weirs 

 " Conquest of the Isthmus," both published in 1909, give int^ 

 resting and instructive accounts of the situation. The great 

 army of the toilers in the Panama are coloured men, gathered 

 from anywhere, amongst whom these Avriters include Italians and 

 Spaniards. 



Since prehistoric times the northern white races have been 

 over-running the south of Europe, but Southern Europe still 

 remains coloured, the great mass of its inhabitants being as dark 

 as many of the Asiatics of Southern Asia. Apart from the question 



