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Updated: May 11, 2025
His hair was long and tangled and greasy, and hung down, and you could see his eyes shining through like he was behind vines. It was all black, no gray; so was his long, mixed-up whiskers. There warn't no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white.
As soon as Kellogg told them what we'd found, Mallin turned fish-belly white and wanted to know how we were going to suppress it. I asked him if he was nuts, and then Kellogg came out with it. They don't dare let the Fuzzies be proven sapient." "Because the Company wants to sell Fuzzy furs?" Van Riebeek looked at him in surprise. "I never thought of that. I doubt if they did, either. No.
And, from its shelter, he watched the black door swing smoothly into the air, while, from the gaping black mouth of the pit beneath, incredible man-shapes of fish-belly white drew themselves up to the edge of the pit and perched there, where they might stretch their long necks into the light of the Sun.
And so there is every shade of complexion; ebony, old mahogany, horsechestnut, sorrel, molasses-candy, clouded amber, clear amber, old-ivory white, new-ivory white, fish-belly white this latter the leprous complexion frequent with the Anglo-Saxon long resident in tropical climates. "You wouldn't expect a person to be proud of being a Mauritian, now would you? But it is so.
We used a mixture of soft soap and soda and sand, which made our hands all mottled: huge brown freckles over an unwholesome-looking, indurated, fish-belly grey. The stuff made one's finger-ends smart horridly, I remember.
His hair was long and tangled and greasy, and hung down, and you could see his eyes shining through like he was behind vines. It was all black, no gray; so was his long, mixed-up whiskers. There warn't no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white.
Another lady. Complexion, old parchment. Another. Pink and white, very fine. Man. Grayish skin, with purple areas. Man. Unwholesome fish-belly skin. Girl. Sallow face, sprinkled with freckles. Old woman. Face whitey-gray. Young butcher. Face a general red flush. Jaundiced man mustard yellow. Elderly lady. Colorless skin, with two conspicuous moles. Elderly man a drinker.
And so there is every shade of complexion; ebony, old mahogany, horsechestnut, sorrel, molasses-candy, clouded amber, clear amber, old-ivory white, new-ivory white, fish-belly white this latter the leprous complexion frequent with the Anglo-Saxon long resident in tropical climates. "You wouldn't expect a person to be proud of being a Mauritian, now would you? But it is so.
Another lady. Complexion, old parchment. Another. Pink and white, very fine. Man. Grayish skin, with purple areas. Man. Unwholesome fish-belly skin. Girl. Sallow face, sprinkled with freckles. Old woman. Face whitey-gray. Young butcher. Face a general red flush. Jaundiced man mustard yellow. Elderly lady. Colorless skin, with two conspicuous moles. Elderly man a drinker.
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