Exceptional Whiteness in Tropical Man
Exceptional Whiteness in Tropical Man
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热带男人非凡的白度
作者：
A. Fraser
奇怪的是，几个月前，在《热带人的黑色》这篇论文写给《自然》的同一个地方扎营，匡威，这类人的白色案例，出乎意料地出现了。当进入时，今天，Jeykondasholapurm的本地村庄，从印度南部的一个土著王朝的首都到现在已经没有了，位于北纬11°左右。而且很长。东经78度，写信人看到一个显然是白色的妇女坐在路边的台阶上，她的头发是亚麻色的，但在其他方面却有着麻风病患者的特征。从当地一位主要的税务官员那里打听到，有一家人住在不到一英里远的地方，其中不止一个成员出生了，而且一直是白色。这并不是因为他们是麻风病人，他们的邻居一点也不怕他们，虽然人们对白色不是疾病的看法并不十分清楚。
SINGULARLY enough, being encamped in the same place as that from which the paper on “The Blackness of Tropical Man” was written to NATURE some months ago, the converse, a case of the whiteness of this class of man, presented itself unexpectedly. While entering, to-day, the native village of Jeykondasholapurm, that had sunk to nothing from having been the capital of a native dynasty in the south of India, and situated about lat 11° N. and long. 78° E., the writer observed an apparently white woman sitting on a doorstep by the side of the road, with flaxen-coloured hair, but having in other respects the characteristics of natives attacked by leprosy. Making inquiries from one of the principal native revenue officials at the place, it was ascertained that there was a family living hardly a mile away, of which more than one of the members had been born, and continued, white all their lives. That this did not result from their being lepers, and that none of their neighbours were in the least afraid of them, though opinion was not quite clear as to the whiteness not being disease.