white man's grave

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Africa, or more specifically, western Africa or Sierra Leone. By extension, any other land subject to Western colonialism or missionizing that is comparably deadly

Not only this, but it is also much higher than the death-rate of such insanitary places as Borne, Venice, Hamburg, and Munich, and actually falls not far short of the rate recorded in that white man's grave Calcutta.

الواصلة

White man's grave

التركية النطق

hwayt mänz greyv

المترادفات

white men's grave

النطق

/ˈhwīt ˈmanz ˈgrāv/ /ˈhwaɪt ˈmænz ˈɡreɪv/

علم أصول الكلمات

() * The nickname is a result of the high mortality rate among white missionary and colonists in Africa, due to the tropical climate, diseases, and sanitation.