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puans of the Malay archipelago, who are nearly as black 

 as negroes, possess well-developed beards.^^ In the 

 Pacific Ocean the inhabitants of the Fiji archipelago 

 have large bushy beards, whilst those of the not-distant 

 archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are beardless ; but 

 these men belong to distinct races. In the Ellice group 

 all the inhabitants belong to the same race; yet on 

 one island alone, namely Nunem.aya, '' the men have 

 splendid beards;" whilst on the other islands '^they 

 "have, as a rule, a dozen straggling hairs for a beard." ^^ 

 Throughout the great American continent the men 

 may be said to be beardless ; but in almost all the tribes 

 a few short hairs are apt to appear on the face, espe- 

 cially during old age. With the tribes of North America, 

 Catlin estimates that eighteen out of twenty men are 

 completely destitute by nature of a beard ; but occa- 

 sionally there may be seen a man, who has neglected to 

 pluck out the hairs at puberty, with a soft beard an inch 

 or two in length. The Guaranys of Paraguay differ 

 from all the surrounding tribes in having a small beard, 

 and even some hair on the body, but no \\hiskers.^^ I 

 am informed by Mr. D. Forbes, who particularly attended 

 to this subject, that the Aymaras and Quichuas of the 

 Cordillera are remarkably hairless, yet in old age a few 

 straggling hairs occasionally aj)pear on the chin. The 

 men of these two tribes have verv little hair on the 

 various parts of the body where hair grows abundantly 



pure negroes and theii- crossed offspring seem to have bodies almost as 

 hairy as those of Europeans. 



16 Wallace, ' The Malay Arch.' vol. ii. 18G9, p. 178. 



-^ Dr. J. Barnard Davis on Oceanic Eaces, in ' Anthropolog. Eeview,' 

 April, 1870, p. 185, 191. 



18 Catlin, ' North American Indians,' 3rd edit. 1842, vol. ii. p. 227. 

 On the Guaranys, see Azara, ' Voyages dans I'Ame'rique IMe'rid.' tom. ii. 

 1809, p. 58 ; also Eengger, ' Saugethierc von Paraguay,' s. i). 



