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did not believe that any such relation existed. He was himself unusually fair, & had withstood the climate in a wonderful manner. When he first arrived on the coast as a boy, An an old & experienced negro chief predicted from his appearance that this would prove the case. Dr. Nicholson of Antigua after having attending ed to this subject question, wrote to me that he did not think that dark-coloured Europeans escaped the yellow-fever better than those that were light-coloured. Mr. J. M. Harris altogether denies *(48) 49 that Europeans with dark hair withstand a hot country better than other men: on the contrary in making his selection of men for service on the coast of Africa, experience has taught him, to choose those with red hair. As far, therefore, as these slight indications serve, these serves no foundation for the hypothesis, accepted by several writers, that the colour of the black

[Descent 1: 244-6: "The late Dr. Daniell, who had long lived on the West Coast of Africa, told me that he did not believe in any such relation. He was himself unusually fair, and had withstood the climate in a wonderful manner. When he first arrived as a boy on the coast, an old and experienced negro chief predicted from his appearance that this would prove the case. Dr. Nicholson, of Antigua, after having attended to this subject, wrote to me that he did not think that dark-coloured Europeans escaped the yellow-fever better than those that were light-coloured. Mr. J. M. Harris altogether denies49 that Europeans with dark hair withstand a hot climate better than other men; on the contrary, experience has taught him in making a selection of men for service on the coast of Africa, to choose those with red hair. As far, therefore, as these slight indications serve, there seems no foundation for the hypothesis, which has been accepted by several writers, that the colour of the black races may have resulted from darker and darker individuals having survived in greater numbers, during their exposure to the fever-generating miasmas of their native countries.
49 'Anthropological Review,' Jan. 1866, p. xxi."]