constitution-shattering

Updated: June 18, 2025

Here in the tropics we have the finer weather no excess of either heat or cold, no sudden, constitution-shattering changes. At Dunk Island rain occurred on 107 days in 1903 and On 92 days in 1904. We had many more days of picnic weather, notwithstanding our overwhelming superiority in quantity of rain. Moreover, in the tropics the bulk of the rain falls after sundown.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber