34 CLOUDLAND 



as in America, man also widened his hunting 

 grounds in the wake of the melting Icefield. 



In the big region of the south-west wind the 

 lands which surround the North Sea and the 

 Baltic are different from all others, being under 

 a low sun, cloudy, with only one day's sunshine 

 out of seven. And Cloudland breeds a special 

 type of man with blue eyes, a ruddy skin, and 

 hair of chestnut, bay, brown, or dun, colours 

 like those of horses. 



Under the grey skies of Cloudland, man 

 lacks the protective colour which in all other 

 regions of the world defends the body from 

 actinic light. I think we shall find this true 

 of the horse also. 



The original striped colouring of the Bays 

 and Duns never developed in Western Europe 

 with its climate of cloudy skies and verdant 

 pastures. 



The White Horse. Now let us study the 

 conditions following the Ice Age in Southern 

 Russia. Here the Dun horse has a white coat 

 for sunny snowy winters. Rumour says that 

 foals are not born white, and it must be re- 

 membered that snowy winters are recent even 

 as grassy plains. 



This whiteness is not, like the summer 

 colouring, a paint issued by the body to tint 



