Chap. XIX. BEAUTY. 349 



which are almost completely destitute of a beard dislike 

 hairs on the face and body, and take pains to eradicate 

 them. The Kalmucks are beardless, and they are well 

 known, like the Americans, to pluck out all strag-pfling 

 hairs ; and so it is with the Polynesians, some of the 

 Malays, and the Siamese. Mr. Veitch states that the 

 Japanese ladies "all objected to our whiskers, consider- 

 " ing them very ugly, and told us to cut them off, and 

 " be like Japanese men." The New Zealanders are 

 beardless ; they carefully pluck out the hairs on the 

 face, and have a saying that " There is no woman for a 

 " hairy man."^^ 



On the other hand, bearded races admire and greatly 

 value their beards ; among the Anglo-Saxons every part 

 of the body, according to their laws, had a recognised 

 value ; " the loss of the beard being estimated at twenty 

 " shillings, while the breaking of a thigh was fixed at 

 *' only twelve." ^^ In the East men swear solemnly by 

 their beards. We have seen that Chinsurdi, the chief 

 of the Makalolo in Africa, evidently thought that 

 beards were a great ornament. With the Fijians in 

 the Pacific the beard is " profuse and bushy, and is his 

 "greatest pride;" whilst the inhabitants of the adja- 

 cent archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are "beardless, 

 " and abhor a rough chin." In one island alone of the 

 Ellice group " the men are heavily bearded, and not a 

 " little proud thereof." ^° 



^® On tlie Siamese, Priehard, ibid. vol. iv.'p. 533. On the Japanese, 

 Veitch in ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' 1860, p. 1104. On the New Zealanders 

 Mantegazza, 'Viaggi e Studi,' 1867, p. 526. For the other nations 

 mentioned, see references in Lawrence, 'Lectures on Physiology,' &c. 

 1822, p. 272. 



59 Lubbock, 'Origin of Civilisation,' 1870, p. 321. 



^^ Dr. Barnard Davis quotes Mr. Pritchard and otliers for these facts 

 in regard to the Polynesians, in ' Anthropological Review,' April, 1870, 

 p. 185, 191. 



