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the father of a numerous family, all of whom 

 were healthy save the eldest Coos-se-yea, who 

 had assumed the chieftainship in place of his 

 aged father, and who was nearly an Albino; 

 that is, his face and body were marked in nearly 

 equal proportions with huge blotches of livid 

 white, contrasted with the tawny hue of the 

 normal man of his race. 



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A. (Tolmie.) The only Albino known of 

 is the Ha-eel-tzuk or Milbank Sound woman, 

 spoken of in Mr. A. C. Anderson's answer to 

 Q. 4. She, as he states, is a true Albino, but is 

 supposed to be a half-breed. Amongst the 

 Hydah, or Queen Charlotte Island tribes, exist a 

 family of coarse, red-haired, light-brown eyed, 

 square-built people, short-sighted and of fair 

 complexion. The oldest representative of this 

 variety was twelve years ago an aged man, sixty 

 or upwards, having all the above-mentioned 

 characteristics well developed. In 1836 and 

 1837 I saw at Vancouver, on the Columbia 

 River, a Chenook Indian, at least sixty years 

 old, red-haired and with light-brown eyes. 

 Brown-haired Indians of fairer than the average 

 complexion are to be found amongst all the tribes 

 from the Columbia River to Stikine in Russian 

 territory, N. lat., 57. 



