inate clumsiness
as a diplomat, an innocent of sorts, st
epping on toes, bullying, and openly espousing visceral di
slike of African-A
mericans. As U.S. charge d'affaires in Panama in 1910 (four years before the completion of the canal), he tried to manipulate Washington and the Panamanian Congress, threatening military occupation and annexation if the mulatto Carlos Mendoza was elected president instead of a white man. "Mendoza's election," he wrote to Washington, "will strengthen the hold of the Liberal party, which includes the Negro and ignorant elements and is most apt to be anti-American." But it was lack of discretion, not his racism, which forced the U.S. government to demand his return to Washing. Essential auxiliary technologies presented are blast geometry modeling by use of a subscale tube, a propane concentration sensor, and studies of stoichiometry.
ton. His depiction of his role in the Cuna rebellion in 1925 offers further testimony to his lack of discretion. Indeed what makes his text (White Indians of Darien, published in 1934) valuable is precisely that it gives voice to unbridled fantasy couched as matter of factuality in the development of two amazing events-the Indian revolt against the Panamanian State, and the Smithsonian-backed search for white Indians. The very excess of the text is what allows us, some sixty years later, to take measure of the play of colonial fantasy in real-life events, both then and now, both with Mr. Marsh and in ourselves too. His text is also valu
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- able for what it suggests about psychosexual racial connection
- s in twentieth century natur
- al science in the United States. It was through the S
- mithsonian expeditions of 1924 and 1925 that Marsh initiated the search for white Indians in
- the Darien. It is an evasion to shrug off his text as if it bore
- no intimate relation to the spirit of positivist science, either then or now. This search was rationali
