I had seen them made in the Brazils, where they are very useful in the great heats which are there, and I felt the heats every jot as great here, and greater too, being nearer the equinox besides, as I was obliged to be much abroad, it was a most useful thing to me, as well for the rains as for the heats. I was indeed in great want of one, and had a great mind to make one. I spent a great deal of time and pains to make an umbrella. One of the most famous umbrellas in literature is the one made by Robinson Crusoe, the fictional castaway invented by Daniel Defoe.
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Red-haired persons, whose systems are deficient in eumelanins, often have rather pale skin that inclines more toward sunburn than suntan, and often develops freckles. The population of Scotland is said to contain the highest proportion of redheads-13%, or about four times as many as in the United States. Red hair is rare in the tropical latitudes where eumelanin is highly concentrated in native peoples, and is similarly uncommon in Asia. Medline Plus, PubMed, National Library of Medicine, (accessed 1/04) During the evolution of human biology, people native to equatorial climates developed comparatively high concentrations of eumelanin, while those native to more temperate zones, such as the continent of Europe, had more phaeomelanin than eumelanin. There are two types, eumelanin (from Greek eu-, dark), which produces dark skin, dark eyes, and black or brunette hair, and the lighter phaeomelanin ( pheo-, from Greek phaios, dusky), which is responsible for fair-skinned, blue-eyed, blond and red haired individuals. It protects the dermis-the layer containing nerve endings, sweat and oil glands, and blood and lymph vessels-from being damaged by ultraviolet solar radiation. Melanin is a natural pigment (from Latin, pigmentum, from pignare, to paint) that gives color to our skin, hair, and the irises of our eyes. In any case, there may have been one good personal reason why Clark carried his.īeneath our skins we’re all supposed to be pretty much alike, but at the epidermal level there are some conspicuous differences that we owe to melanin ( MEL-a-nin from the Greek word melan, meaning black). Moore, Jr., and Michael Haynes, Tailor Made, Trail Worn: Army Life, … Continue reading but there is no evidence whatsoever that Lewis took one on the expedition.
Foley, Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004), 2. The instrument might have been a standard part of every officer’s kit in the U.S.
During the Napoleonic wars some British officers carried umbrellas into battle, but the practice was unauthorized, and it reaped ridicule from French critics.