882 An Isolated Community in the Bahama Islands, | 
not be in itself entirely novel; but the writer hopes to call 
tion to it in a new way, and, possibly, to place it on a founda 
somewhat more scientific than that on which it has hitherto rested 
A broad fact that strikes a student of the condition of thi 
‘on Green Turtle Key is that the Blacks deviate much less in 
condition and character from what they are elsewhere than the 
Whites. Excepting a few of the latter, who retain the English 
look of vigor, most of them have the stamp of weakness and 
anemia in the plainest way impressed on them; they sugge 
feeble plants that have had insufficient light. The Blacks "i 
not equal to the same race in the Northern States, perhaps, a 
are scarcely inferior to Negroes as found in some communities 
hs in the South. : 
It now remains to inquire what are the causes which have led 
to the degeneration of this English race. First of all must "i 
~ named insufficient food, in the physiological ‘sense, combined 
~ with impure air, from the custom of closing up the houses 9 
__ thoroughly at night. The influence of such factors may also be 
well seen in the Indians of the Canadian Northwest living 08 
the reserves, In consequence of the same sort of partial starva 
tion, imperfect housing, and special forms of disease traceable 
the advent of the white man with his peculiar vices, these 4 
: -dians are fairly melting away off the face of the earth ; OF 
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_ Manifest in this part of the body; but the amount really Pu 
Tei could distinctly trace to other conditions, sP°° 
Samedi the food and the lack of variety in the ace 
coven whet No actual disease is present, the decided lacks } í 
_ Feferred to above is to be accounted for. No explana oe 
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