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CANADIAN

NATIONAL RAILWAYS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 1924

TRAVEL via CANADA to EUROPE.

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The New Route of CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS offer excellent service with moderate rates.

Daily trains-VANCOUVER to MONTREAL Highest Rocky Mountain Peaks viewed en route. Complete information and "illustrated Booklets supplied on request.

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NATIONAL RAILWAYS,

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SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION

LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM

Colombo, Suez and Port Said.

"LONDON MARU'

& ANTWERP-Fia Singapore,

Tuesday, 4th Nov.

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS BUENOS AIRES-vis Saig, a, Singapore,

Colombo, Durban and Capetown.

MEXICO MARU”

"CHICAGO MARU

BOMBAY vis Singapore and Colombo.

"SHINNO MÁHU" (Calls at Ponang)

"AT PS MARU" (Calla'at Penang)

BASHEO YB SAIGON.

BOSHO MARU"

HAQUE MARU “

Jeera e Singapore, Penang & Bangoon.

Wednesday, 22nd Oct. Monday, 24th Nov.

Thursday, 23rd Oct. Tuesday,

4th NOT.

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Saturday.

1st Nor

Sunday,

28th Oct;

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER via Shanghai and

Japan Ports.

"AFRICA MART

Friday

14th Nov.

NEW YORK via Japan Ports, San Francisco and Panama,

JAPAN POETS.

"INDO MARU"

"HONOLULU MARU"

"BORNEO MARU*

"ALTAI MAKU

KBELUNG via SWATOW & AMOY.

"AMAKUSA MARU"

"KAIJO MARU

TAKAO IN SWATOW & AMOY.

"KOTSU MARO

TARAO & KEELUNG

Thursday, 23rd Oct. Thursday, 30th Out, - Sunday and Nov Monday, 10th Nov.

75th Oct. 1.

2nd Nov, 112.

Sunday, Sunday,

Thursday, 23rd Oct., 10s.m.

Sunday, 26th Oct. "

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA

M. TAKEUCHI, Manager.

For further partionlașe please apply to---

**BATAVIA MARU”.

Telephone Nos. 4098, 4083, 4090.

¿COMPANIA TRASATLANTICA DE BARCELONA Spanish Royal Mail Line

For MANILA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, SUEZ, PORT SAID, BARCELONA and OTHER SPANISH PORTS,

8.3.

8.8

"O LOPEZ Y LOPEZ" ISLA DE PANAT”

150

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29th Oct. 21st Dec

For YOKOHAMA, ROBE, MOJI, and BHANGHAI, 8.S. "IELA DE PANAY"

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3rd Dec.

The steamers of this Company are all classed 100 A1 at Lloyd's and are fitted with every modern convenience for the comfort and safety of the passengers, Stewardom and Dostor asrried.

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DRY DOCKS.

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RACE AND COLOUR.

INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE AND ANCESTRY,

In a recent article in a London weekly Professor Fleure describes the influences which climate and ancestry have, on the colour of the sking-

SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.

The R.M.S. Empress, of Canada "arriv- ed at Yokohama, on October 21st at noon, left on October 2nd at 6 a.m., and is due at Hongkong on October 29th at 4 P.m."

The Dollar Steamship liner President | Adam which, is due at this port on cisco on October 11th, on schedule. November inh, sailed from San Fran

In North-West Europe we are so proud of our fair skin that we are, perhapa,

The Admiral Oriental liner President. over-inclined to use the colour of the Madison sailed from Seattle on October akin as the basis for classifying 10th, and is dite at this port on October kind into white, yellow, brown, bluck aud, it may be, red, and attempts have lat, one day in advance of subedule. even been made to suggest that the blas Great is due to arrive at Manila at 7 The Admiral Orientul liner President skinned men at hust have a separat.m. October 2r. She returns from. line of descent all the way along,, it is Manila at 3 p.ni. October 20th, arriving certain that nature knows little, if any here at 7. October 29th, and will thing, of these sharp distinctious; the sail for Victoria and Seattle rid Shang- different kinds of skin shade of jata hai and Japan at 10 am. on October one another wita" delicate gradations, and it by no means clear that nature makes us much of skin colour as we do. A great deal has been said about ita possible functions, but more rehuius to be found out, antl it is always easy to fall into the delusion that every feature of man or beast must serve some pur

pusu.

30th.

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VESSELS EXPECTED. Diemal (Blue Funnel), due November

21st.

Enpresa of Canada, due October 27th. Ethan Allen (Tampa), due October 27th. Fushimi, Maru. (NY.K.), due November

3rd.

We may carry a character because one ancestors did long ago, or because it sector (Blue Funnel), due November the more or less acendental accompani;

9th

Janja (Blue Funnel), due November 1st Chemius. (Blue Funnel), due October

29th.

ment of some other character of valu or even beenuse it "just groweth,” Anu yet ak colour shades from the deepest hues in parts of equatorial Africa through President Adams (Dellar), due November brown and olive to white in North 10th.

West Europe with such regularity that'resident Gurfield (Dollar), due Novem- it seems related to sunlight, which on the ber 24th.

23rd.

Pelema chur (Blue Funnel), duo November

13th.

whole diminishes in intensity na we moye] Shuuka Maru (0.S.K.); tine to-day. out of the tropics 1 is true that the Talma (B.I. and Apeur), `due. October, peoples of the snows usually have colour- ed skin, but that would be understand. able if it were shown that skin colour is A protection against excess of light, for, long as their winter night may be the giare from the snowy surfaces may be strong enough" at other seasons, even if the land does get free of snow for a while in mиnes-

A HERITAGE OF PIGMENT.

Coming to cool, temperate climes we find that skin pigment bas vanished, the sun is rarely strong enough to evoke it, and, moreover, the babies have long been kept fairly closely wrapped up and pro- In Africa and Europe, and in a seus tected from both sun and cold. The skin also in Asia, skin colour is somehow rewet climate of Western Europe, and the is fairly thin and delicate in the mild, lated to latitude and intensity of sun blood vessels show through, so we are, light, but, so far as can be guessed at

14 or may be," pink and white. In the present, quite a moderate amount of skin, mountainous parts of Central Europe colour "would serve as at elicient pratec and farther east, the sharp cold may at tron against ever strong light. This, times interfere with the blood vessels and means explains the give a florid effect on the skin. Often, therefore, by no matter, and we must look elsewhere, must however, the skin is, as it were, close- dig into several pits to trace the root set and whitish, without much red visible of the question.

at the surface.

i

In the first place, man's animal ances

In Asia, especially in Mongolia and tors sech to have had a good deal of China, the skin sering dense and close- pigment in Leta skio and hair, if we set, with the blood vessels well screened "may judge from his arijmal cousins of from the cold and the heat. The skin the present day. They were far more colour is mostly brownish in Mongolia, hairy than most of us, an may well yellow in North Chino, browar again as be that their abundant dark bair took lone goes south, but it is every different up large quantities or pignient produced from the skins, for example, of peoples by the buy pigment which in some of in tropical Africa. It is firm, with few their coniparatively hairless descendants póres of any kind, so is poor in bair, and is tins oruvd to suny in the skin.

the hair usually grows quite regular and Europeans, for the most part, become straight out of firm-edged pores. whereas red-brown or brown ander strong in in tropical Africa the cushion-like akin Aluguer of the san; that is to say, the full of blood vessels and sweat glands, sun evoke pigment shell to some degree rich in pres that are loose and wide, inay be of use, but need be evckel solely gires hair that grows so irregularly as or even mainly for that reason. If that to be kindly or, as is often said, woolly. effect of sünshire be allowed, then it is Both these types of skin are rather hos surely possible to suppose that, if early tile to hair growth, and so it happens types of men went to live in the tropics that, we in North-West Europe retain before they had lost their heritage of more of the bair covering of our animal colour, they would be likely enough to ancestors than do the peoples either of kerp is there, and even to intensify it tropical Africa or of Eastern Aria. as they lost their hairy covering.

At the same time we must remember that in many Pitches of colouring matter serta special ly placed above blood vessels and other organs containing fluid in the skin and beneath it, whether to protect them from light or no. The African negro has n skin singularly rich in blood vessels and sweat glands, and this may have some- His thing to do with his colouring colouring seems to absorb a good deal of the intense radiation from the sun, 50 that radiation does not penetrate into the depths of the skin, when some of its many properties night well have disturb But moderate pigment ing influences. would probably suffice for this last pur- pose, as was said above. The Australian' native is one of the clearest cases of a survival of curly types of man, and his colour is dark in the extreme.

animals

MAN. GROWING PALK.

streaks

and

From the fact that most, men are less deeply coloured, and some hundreds of millions have little enough colour of any Bort, it would seem that in the evolution of mankind there has been a widespread but not a universal tendency towards leas pigment, especially among the peoples of temperate latitudes. In the tropical re- gions of Africa and Australia and South Indin, etc. colour varies for the most past between black and chocolate brown, probably according to the relative abund. unce of black-brown and red brown pig ment, both of which' are generally pre-

sent.

As we are surveying the facts and not trying to advance a theory, we may point out that in the very centre of the equatorial regions are the pigmies of the African forests with yellowish skins. We cannot attribute their lack of colour to the fact that the forest is dark and pro tests them from the effects of the sun, for other forest peoples. especially in the East Indian regions, are singularly, black. We may rather remember these pignies, who are probably survivals of ancient types. 3 n warning against any too simple theory. "

FEATURES OF THE BROWN.

Outside the equatorial regions black. brown grades to lighter brown and olive, both in the Mediterranean region and in India, and the diminution of pigment is accompanied by a more regular develop ment of the profile of the face, and in some cases extra growth in height, the nose stands out more strongly and the mouth less so, while the chia makes it self more felt. How all this may be connected with reduction of pigment we cannot tell; all we can say is that in a large measure the two things go to gether.

(Continued on next Columa.)

Brown colouring in the skin nearly always includes some red-brown, and this is specially found in the various peoples who have spread up towards the Arctic from Central Asia. Some have come westward as the Lapps, others have gone north-eastwards and have eventually reached and spread over America, where

and brown and yellow-brown are found in varying proportions every. where.

Inheritance and climate have thus both had their shares in, making, our skins what they are, and there is no simple theory to account for their intereting

variety,

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STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

SAILINGS' SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

KOBE TL SHANGHAI & MOJI..... “KUTSANG” .... Wednesday, sind Oct. 7am,

TRINGTAU via SWATOW NA SHANGRAI

THENTAIN

SHANGHAI via SWATOW MANILA

HAIPHONG - HỒ HOT BANGKOK via SWATOW TSINGTAU SWATOW &

SHANGHAI MANILA via AMOY STRAITS & CALOUTTA KOBE MOJI

BANDAKAN

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Jean

Wednesday, 92nd Oct. 7m *** YATSHING* \ \\

"CREONGSHING* Wednesday, 22nd Oct., Noom.

TENOSEING Friday. 24th Out 70

"TUENSANGTM ...Saturday, 25th Oct, 11. *LEESANG"

Sanday, 28th Oct, Monday,

'OHAKBANG"

"NAMBANG" "RINSANG"

27th Oct Noum

Wednesday, 19th Out

Saturday. Saturday, Saturday,

Saturday,

1st Novy SpI:

lat Nov

6th Nov 7.

8th Nov 3Pl

CALCUTTA LINE-Thin Line now affords regular zaliuze to Calcutta, Penang 196 via Strate

accommodation.

SHANGHAI

MANTLA

Singapore; returning from Calcutta visamars Pangbat

and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally saling at All steamers have excellent

atted with Wireless and carry at Pasen Sargoon.

LINE---Sailings approrimstaly egy

three

days between Canton and

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Wayı

LAY HINSANG and ... "MA USANG," both steamaTE accommodation, Cargo ten oth

LINE sailings

to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 m

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2)

CALCUTTA

LINE

8. "LAISANG" will be despatched on or about. Saturday, 1st November, 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG

& CALCUTTA.

200

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