quotesOwnWordstrove-cooktown/mauritius-queensland
A workman wiping his dripping brow and resting from the work of removing a granite boulder from the line of a Cooktown street at mid-day in the month of December, will remark that ' it is too hot for a white man.' But the same man will pursue his toil, eat heartily of the same hot, heavy, greasy messes that English labourers everywhere consume, drink copiously of heavy ' loaded 1 beer and fiery spirits, sleep in a close, unventilated bedroom, and be apparently not much the worse for it.