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How did Europeans, especially Northern, deal with settling and colonizing warm, tropical places? For example, how did a 17th Dutchman cope with the intensely different climate of Indonesia, or did they just sweat constantly?

by /u/memories_torn_apart in /r/AskHistorians

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