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by lelandfe
975 days ago
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Thousands of people died during the construction of the Panama Canal as well. The Path Between the Seas is a good book covering it. As I recall, food was “refrigerated” by the workers in nested, open pots submerged in water. …which happened to be an excellent breeding place for mosquitoes. Malaria and yellow fever would kill or cripple every worker present, and the country du jour had to keep shipping more in. Bleak stuff. France saw like 20,000 workers die alone. Rainforests really are not a great place to live, lol |
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