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The congenital colorblindness of Pingelap is a direct result of the place's isolation and its vulnerability to natural cataclysm--it was a storm that decimated the island's population and enforced inbreeding, causing a recessive gene to flourish.
Leaving behind only two men, the Somers party resumed their journey westward and finally landed at Jamestown, only to be greeted by a shock: illness, starvation, and Indian attacks had drastically decimated the colony.
Plantation work was labor intensive, but there were very few laborers on the island; the Spanish slaves had disappeared into the inhospitable interior and the native Arawak had been decimated by disease.
The lessons learned from these groups are that "[t]he allies must begin reconstructing Kosovar society now, without delay, even before they make or find their way into Kosovo itself and face the immense task of rebuilding the province's decimated infrastructure and housing stock.
The industry was decimated by the loss of many Jewish families who ran the major diamond houses, but a slow recovery ensured its survival.