reading jack london's "story of a typhoon off the coast of japan", from 1893, and just ran across this line:
On the clouds in the sky the morning of a horrid storm: "The sun had an angry look, and a few light, fleecy 'niggerheads' in that quarter seemed abashed and frightened and soon disappeared."
guess jack wasn't the least racist dood in the world either, but he did like animals