Meanwhile the actors rearranged themselves into a different blocking, as the prop department redressed the set.

It might be better to see the title almost as comic, in its dead-pan announcement of an Important Political Issue.

The Rocks and outer Lines of the Island, are the Haunts of variety of Sea-Birds, especially Boobies and Noddies […] . The Noddies are smaller and flat footed also.

The publication of Galton's novel was picked up online by so-called race realists, whose websites I shall not flatter by listing, which further positioned it within the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature of ‘white crisis’ (Bonnet, 2008: 18–19).