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  1. Robovski

    When did people figure out that the tropics were a death trap for settlers from temperate lands?

    The Miasma theory was still prevalent until the later 19th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory so yeah, I don't think they every really cracked the nut of how Europeans weren't suited for tropical environs, they just brute forced their way through it or failed, like the Scottish...
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