Note 6 — Chapter XIV · THE RICH COAST
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The negroes we saw along the railroad, as well as those observed in Limon, were a constant study for us, especially when congregated in large numbers in halls or churches. Like the negroes of Martinique they are, in the words of Lafcadio Hearn, “A population fantastic, astonishing—a population of the Arabian Nights.”6 They exhibit the whole gamut of skin tints from the milk-white of the albino to the coal-black of the Nubian.