White men in thetropics undergo radical changes of nature.
The opinion which Europeans living in the tropics form of the brown men is generally unfavorable and unjust to them.
We should not forget that only those Europeans go to the tropics who display special energy and force of will--a kind of chosen lot among our race--while the natives there include all the levels of the people.
Only five of the some three hundred and fifty known species reach the United States and these are migratory, coming to us in the spring and returning to the tropics in the fall.
Trogons are found in the tropics of both the Old and New Worlds.
Here, at any rate, there was neither the warmth nor the color of the tropics to entice him to the indolent dreaming that one of his temperament might easily yield to in the lowlands of Colombia.
The horary oscillations of the barometer, which in the tropics present two maxima (viz.
In the earliest stages of civilization, the grand and imposing spectacle presented to the minds of the inhabitants of the tropics could only awaken feelings of astonishment and awe.
The regularity of the horary changes in the declination of the magnetic needle and in the atmospheric pressure remained undisturbed between the tropics on the days when earthquakes occurred.
The luxuriant zone of the tropicsoffers the strongest resistance to these changes in the natural distribution of vegetable forms.
The general movement of the sea from east to west between p 307 the tropics (termed the equatorial or rotation currnt) is considered to be owing to the propagation of tides and to the trade winds.
They occur when the air is extremely calm and the heavens are quite serene, and are much more common under the tropics than in the temperate and frigid zones.
Even within the tropics it might be done by skilful observation, if the observer knew the exact time of the year.
A dweller in the tropics of the Western hemisphere would have pronounced this sign the certain forerunner of a storm; and so predicted the young Paraense.
Since alcohol is said to be particularly dangerous in the tropicsit would be interesting to know the total effect of this general indulgence.
People in the tropics are not usually fond of walking, but Ping Nam was "game" and made no further remarks about my method of locomotion.
The tropics were my ideal, and this feeling became stronger as the years went by.
As a rule, the natural histories said, poisonous spiders of the tropics are not of great size, and most of them have short legs.
Sportsmen have found it profitable to visit the tropics solely for the purpose of shooting these rainbow-colored creatures for ornaments.
The labor of this people was limited to the light work necessary to provide for the prime wants of life, beyond which they knew nothing, while the bounteous climate of the tropics spared the necessity of clothing.
The negro of the tropics will only work when he is compelled, and in the West Indies he has scarcely more to do, as it regards sustaining life, than to pluck of the wild fruits and to eat.
With all their dreamy beauty, the tropics are full of sadness, both in their past and present history.
This lovely insect represents in the United States a great group of butterflies closely allied to it, which are natives of the tropics of the New World.
The butterfly is common throughout the tropics of the New World, and is occasionally found in southern Texas and Florida.
The butterflies belonging to this great group are mostly confined to the tropics of the New World, and only a few genera and species are included in the region covered by this volume.
The insect is universally abundant in the tropics of America, and occurs in southern Florida.
This genus is confined to the tropics of the New World, and is represented in the extreme southern portions of the United States by the species figured in our plate--E.
These butterflies are extremely numerous in the tropics of the New World, and are there represented by a number of genera which are rich in species.
This subfamily is very large, and is enormously developed in the tropics of both hemispheres.
Gaily colored species belonging to this subfamily are more numerous in the tropics of both hemispheres.
The genus is wonderfully developed in the tropics both of the New and the Old World, and has always been a favorite with collectors, containing many of the largest as well as the handsomest insects of the order.
Ithomiid butterflies swarm in the tropicsof the New World, and several hundreds of species are known to inhabit the hot lands of Central and South America.
This butterfly, which mimics the genus Heliconius in the outline of the wings, is very common in the tropics of America, and only appears as an occasional visitant in southern Texas.
We find that these days in the tropics people may look upon the missionary's American refrigerator as a normal and necessary thing; but the cheap print curtains hanging at his windows may be to them unjustifiable extravagance!
The man who was born and bred in the tropics finds the climate just what he likes.
But according to Aristotle the torrid zone is contained between the tropics, the temperate zones occupying the whole space between the tropicsand the arctic circles.
Polybius supposes six zones: two situated between the poles and the arctic circles; two between the arctic circles and the tropics; and two between the tropics which are divided by the equator.
Whereas more than half of the space between the tropics is inhabited, as we may judge by the Ethiopians who dwell above Egypt.
The impropriety of using shifting points to mark the limits of those which are fixed has been remarked before; and we have likewise objected to the plan of making the tropics the boundary of the torrid zone.
For it is nothing else than ignorance to suppose that the autumnal equinox is not equally distant from the tropics with the vernal; since in both equinoxes the sun rises at the same point, and performs a similar revolution.
Layer after layer of lava has been poured, one above the other; then, cooling and crumbling, a soil has been formed on which the beautiful plants and trees of the tropics have taken root.
It was necessary to choose skilful workmen who knew just how to finish the corners, for the heavy rains of the tropics must not be given a chance to soak through the outside and make it damp within.
We had recently returned two junior officers for alcoholism; they couldn't cope with the tropics even in peacetime.
Manila hemp is a sort of half-wild product that may yet have an introduction to our rich tropics just as the potato was introduced into Europe, and many of our crops have been introduced from Europe.
Over 40 nondomiciliary species have been carried by ship from the American Tropics to other parts of the world in cargoes of bananas (p.
Cockroaches in the tropics were also terrible scourges.
Damage to living plants occurs principally in the Tropics or under subtropical conditions in greenhouses in temperate regions.
Most, if not all, of the common domiciliary cockroaches apparently originated in the Tropics or sub-Tropics from whence they have spread, through normal commercial channels, into most of the inhabited world.
The wide distribution of Evania has been attributed to the abundance of host cockroaches on ships between the Tropics (Haldeman, 1847).
Periplaneta brunnea= Circumtropical domiciliary pest which is apparently more nearly peculiar to the Tropics and adjacent regions than P.
It was likely enough that we should manage to bring the dogs safely through the tropics once, but whether we should succeed in doing so twice was more doubtful; and so on to infinity.
Along the coast of Africa, we have the Benguela Current, flowing from south to north; on the American side the Brazil Current flows from the tropics southward.
Here in the tropics of course they had rather too much of a good thing, but they did not suffer from the heat.
Going through thetropics this loose deck did double service.
The heat of the tropics would make short work of the greater part of them.
They had evidently brought with them the products of Holland, even including tulips; and such of them as would grow in the tropics they had cultivated and continued to cultivate.
Nor had he been long enough in the tropics to have acquired the habit.
Among the marine flower gardens of an Eastern coral reef the fishes present every variety of gorgeous colour, while the river fish even of the tropics rarely if ever have gay or conspicuous markings.
In every part of the tropics there are tree snakes that twist among boughs and shrubs, or lie coiled up in the dense masses of foliage.
The genus Garcinia is a genus of trees containing about fifty species in the tropics of the Old World, and usually yielding a yellow gum-resin (gamboge).
The party, though well accustomed to the rich vegetation of the West Indies, agreed that few scenes in the tropics could surpass this in beauty.
Between trades and anti-trades is another zone of calms,--near the Tropics of Cancer and of Capricorn.
The crust is frozen the year around in the polar regions, and never between the Tropicsof Cancer and Capricorn.
The trade winds blow the warm air of the Tropics north and south, making the climate of the northern countries milder than it would otherwise be.
Cold streams of air flow to the Tropics from north and south of the Equator, and push upward the air heated by the sun.
Two months later, in the forests of Brazil, we were to see what the sun of the tropics does in stimulating an exuberant life: here we saw what beauty he can give to sterility.
As the native Indians are too few and too feeble to be worth regarding, it would be necessary to bring in some race native to the tropics which had already formed habits of steady industry.
There is the brilliant sunlight of the tropics without their too rank vegetation.
Not often in the tropics does one get the openness and the mingling of cornfields and meadows with forest which make the charm of south European scenery.
