The Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race Examined On the Principles of Science

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The Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race Examined On the Principles of Science
Bachman, John, 1790-1874
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Palisot de Beauvois calls it pestilential." The long list of names of those that have perished in their attempts to explore the interior of Africa are sufficient attestations of the pestilential effects of the climate. The expeditions of the British Government to explore the Niger by steamboats, scarcely reached the mouth of the river through the Gulf of Benin, ere the crews were prostrated by disease, one only of the naturalists, a personal friend of ours, was providentially spared to navi- ga...te the steamer on its return ; nearly all the crew had died.
ThQ crews in British and American vessels of war have often taken the African fever before they had arrived within several leagues of the shore. If the constitution of man in such a country can in a succession of generations become assimilated to a climate so peculiar as this, why may not such a climate produce changes in the forms and colors of its inhabitants ?
The negroes from Africa, on their first arrival in Ameri- ca, did not require to become acclimated ; on the other hand their descendants who returned to Liberia and Sierra Leone, all had to undergo what is termed a seasoning, and hundreds of them died on the first season under the effects *MaIte Brun's Universal Geo., vol 4th, p.


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