328 SEXUAL SELECTION": MAN. [Part II. 



Mr. Winwood Reade informs me that the nesrroes of the 

 West Coast often discuss the beauty of their women. 

 Some competent observers have attributed the fearfully 

 common practice of infanticide partly to the desire felt by 

 the women to retain their good looks. 48 In several regions 

 the women wear charms and love-philters to gain the affec- 

 tions of the men ; and Mr. Brown enumerates four plants 

 used for this purpose by the women of Northwestern 

 America. 49 



Hearne, 60 who lived many years with the American 

 Indians, and who was an excellent observer, says, in speak- 

 ing of the women, " Ask a northern Indian what is beauty, 

 and he will answer, a broad flat face, small eyes, high 

 cheek-bones, three or four broad black lines across each 

 cheek, a low forehead, a large broad chin, a clumsy hook 

 nose, a tawny hide, and breasts hanging down to the belt." 

 Pallas, who visited the northern parts of the Chinese em- 

 pire, says, " Those women are preferred who have the 

 Mandschu. form; that is to say, abroad face, high cheek- 

 bones, very broad noses, and enormous ears ; " " and 

 Vogt remarks that the obliquity of the eye, which is 

 proper to the Chinese and Japanese, is exaggerated in 

 their pictures for the purpose, as." it seems, of exhibiting its 

 beauty, as contrasted with the eye of the red-haired bar- 

 barians." It is well known, as Hue repeatedly remarks, 

 that the Chinese of the interior think Europeans hideous 

 with their white skins and prominent noses. The nose is 



48 See, for references, ' Gerland iiber das Aussterben der Naturvolker,' 

 /868, s. 51, 58, 55 ; also Azara, ' Voyagas,' etc., torn. ii. p. 116. 



49 On the vegetable productions used by the Northwestern American 

 Indians, i Pharmaceutical Journal,' vol. x. 



60 'A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort,' 8vo edit. 1796, p. 89. 



61 Quoted by Prichard, « Phys. Hist, of Mankind,' 3d edit. vol. iv, 

 1844, p. 519; Vogt, 'Lectures on Man,' Eng. translat. p. 129. On the 

 opinion of the Chinese on the Cingalese, E. Tennent, ' Ceylon,' vol. ii. 

 1859, p. 107. 



