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Show 358 ACCLIMATION; OR, TllE INFLUENCE OF and the isles of MauJ·itius find llourbon, it is the [exotic] black& who work; in India, it is tho llindoo. "Spaniards, it is truo, do labor a litUo nt Cuba and at Porto Rico. Dut thoy h11d iolmbitod, in Europe, 11 l1ottor climnto thnn tho French nnd English. [For tho Sflmo l'Oflson, joined to their dark rnco, our white ·fishermen, in tho bnyous from Chn,·lo~ton, 8. ., to 01tlvoston, 'J'oxas, aro tho only men who, with compflralivo security, ply their voc1ttion tho whole yenL' round; nnd they aro Spa11iarda, Porlugueae, Afaltc8e, or olso mulaltoa.] 'l'hoy work also a little in A111orica, oRpooiltlly when tho altitude of tho soil nmk\ls up for tho ltitittHlo of tho oounlr'y, r1~ in Mexico 1tml Peru; OJ' when tho climnto is 1'11r mor tolllpornto, ns in lluouos Ayres; nne! evon thon, thiij labor cnnnot be oompflrod to the work pcrfonno•l in f'l'llnco n.nd in Engl~tnd [nne! north of "Mo.son and Dixon's lino"]. At tho Philippines, it is tho no.tivo that ltlbot·s. "'l'ho Dutohm11n workH not out of Europe: nt Javo,, it is the Mo.lay; o,t Ouycm11, it iH the hl~tok who h1bors. "'l'ho Portuguese never lnbors in India. In llro.zil nnd at Ouyo,na it is tho blflok who works for him;" [in Contn1l Amorico,, it is tho Carib, tho Toltecan Indio,n, or tho ho,lfoo. slo.JG In EO'ypt, no Bnropean nor Turk risks his own person as an agriculturist: the lahoe is performed thoro, as in M sopotamia, by tho indig nous Pl'lldli. At Maclagas 'ar tho Frenchman, as in icrrs:t Leone tho Eng1ishnH1n, dies oil' if he attempts it. l11 Algeria, tho F~·on hare beginning to find out tbat, unlcs~:~ the Amh or tho Kabylc Will plough tho ti l<lii Cot th m, colonization is hop 'lcss.0 And, lastly, w ro not this fact of' tho non-acclimation of white races, a few d gr· ?s north an<l Boniu of ihc equinoctial lin , now r cocrni7. d by oxp nonce, why slrould Coolies from Iudia a11d Malayana, as well as OMnese "appr n ticcH," bo cagcdy contracted for at Bourbon, tho Manr·itius, tbo West Irtdios, and in Southern America? Tho truth of those propositions will be invostigat d Jrcr inaftor.] Tho negro, too, obeys tho law of climate. Unlil o tho white man, 6 Dt:s.ronl:UT, L' Alyrrie, Po vis, 1847, pp. 6, 7, ami 20, notes. "Nous no comptonR ioi lcs hommes morts dans lo~ !J8pitaux [i. 0• 71 ptr 1000, in 1840 nlono !], ot nous ne pflrlons pas do cottx qui, r6form6s, vont mourir d~tos JourB fnmillcs. Nous no parlona pas 11011 plus clo coux tu<!s p11r lo fou do l'en11omi: ils 8011 t pou nombreux. Nous pordoos pn.r an, 011 Afriqno, environ ........................................ 200 bommcs. "Nons o,vons p01·du 1' 1810 ................................................. 116 Ala prise do Constantino .......................... 100 A ~: ~~~~:~~~. ~~~~~~:: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 2~ " "'Tout ~1omrno f1dblo qu'on ouvoio en Afrique oat un hommo porclu.' _ MAJtli!OnAt DuoJoJAUD, chscours du 10 f6vrior, 1R88." 6 ~oc Di&coJir& prononc~ par M. D&SJODIHlT (Ropre~ont11tivo in tho AucmbUe Nationalo), Paris, 1860,; l~l1~~•, Document$ Stati«tique& tur l'Alg6rie, 1861; DoumN, Ifi«toirc Stati.:!tiq11c de la .Ool~n!Ballon et de la Population en Algtrie, p,wis, 1868, paBaim. It 1 8 Wtth mu~h di.sappoiutmont tl111t I nm compelled to go to press with thoao ovidencos of tho non-o,~ol10tflt1on of t·acos, without hnving rocoivcd n copy of tho work wldch D1 t ~OUDtN hi\~ tn pt·oss ('l'1·ai/l dr OtograpMc ct de Stali8tique .Aftdicalca 2 vola 8vo 1\t lJfli!~ 1 h'bre's, ~a0'''8 ). Mr. Oliudon tolls me tlmt ho perused somo of its proof:Khoets ~t Lh~ nuthor's OUH01 Ill ot. 1 1 !Jli6. • CLIMA'l'J<; AND DISEASES ON MAN. 3f)f) his complexion UJH.lorrroos no chango by climate. While the white man is dar] cued by the tropical sun, the n gro is never blanch 'U in tho slightest dogl'CO by a r sidonco in north m latitud s. Like tho quadl'umana of tho tr·opics, h is inevitably kill d by colcl; but it never changes his hair, c mploxion, sk loton, nor size and Ahapo of brn,in.' Wo do not propose, however, to nt t' into thiB discuAsion hero. Our object is simply to call nitontion to tho independence of oxisti n 0' typos, of all eli matic causes now in opomt.ion. Whilo naturalists have been accumulatinO' so much useful infor ·mation onc rni11o- the history, durability, &c., of species in tho animal kingdom, they l avo us still in ut.Lot· dal'kn ss as to tho time or manner of their rrgrn. Our a tual Wlont ancl.D'amra xi nd, it is now .asccr'Lai ned, many thommnd ycat·s b •yond tho chrorwlogics tangllt 111 our schools to children; bnt. whctlrer man and lriA nssociat. s have exist d ten or orJo hnndrcd tlwusan<.l years, wo have no datn for dot •t·mininO'. Lepsius tolls us tlrat ho rop;arcls even tho records of tho arly (Hid and IVth) dynasties of Egypt, as a pari of tho modem ldstw!J of man. That organized bcinO's have existed on earth (in the language of tho gr at geologist Lyell) "millions of ages," no natnl'alist of our day wi 11 doubt; and although our knowledge is not sufl1ciontly cornpl to to cnabl us to follow Nature's groat chain, link by link, yet it appears prolmblo that there has b n an ascending s rios, connncncing with the t~impl at forms and on<1in0' with man. 0 olegists have anan•r d the mat rials which om110SC tho crust of tho earth into igneous and sedimentarv. Th fir·Rt, as tho name implies, aro formed by tho action of heat und e snp rincnrnhcnt pt'OI:lsurc, and arc composed of an aggregate of ceystallino I articles, without mry order or stratification. S climontary rocks arc composed of tho fraO'mcntl:l of older rocks, worn clown by tho action of the lornonts, and d posited in tho oc an, whence, by pt· ssul'e, heat, and ch mica] agency, they arc r -formed into now masses, assuming a st.rat.i£icd and more or lol:ls slaty structure. To say nothing of subdivisions, tho whole series have boon divided into ign ous rocks, peimary stratiliod formations, secondary {onnations, tertiary formations, and diluvial formations. In tho fil'st two divisions we iiud no traces of lifo, animal or v gctablo; iu t.lro sccondlll'y we find numerous plants, mollush, r ptil s, and iishos; and, T 1'ho negro races aro peouli,wly litlble to oon~nmption out of tho tropios, or oven wilhin thorn. Thoy aro novo1· ng,·iculturists, citbor in Bgypt or in Dllrbat·y: nevertholosa, in both countrica, negroes nro tho shortest livod of tho populntion. Monkeys sulfer to a gre11l extent with tho Rr1mo cliscnso, in tho Oardon of l'lauts, at Paris. Nowhere in North Europo or in our Northern Stntos, co,n tho Orang-uta11 livo. |