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tude ready for attacking or striking his enemy, whom 

 he will perhaps scan from head to foot in defiance. 

 He carries his head erect, with Ins chest well expand- 

 ed, and the feet planted firmly on the ground. He 

 holds his arms in various positions, with one or 

 both elbows squared, or with the arms rigidly sus- 

 pended by his sides. With Europeans the fists are com- 

 monly clenched. 13 The figures 1 and 2 in Plate VI. 

 are fairly good representations of men simulating indig- 

 nation. Any one may see in a mirror, if he will vividly 

 imagine that he has been insulted and demands an 

 explanation in an angry tone of voice, that he suddenly 

 and unconsciously throws himself into some such at- 

 titude. 



Eage, anger, and indignation are exhibited in nearly 

 the same manner throughout the world; and the fol- 

 lowing descriptions may be worth giving as evidence of 

 this, and as illustrations of some of the foregoing re- 

 marks. There is, however, an exception with respect to 

 clenching the fists, which seems confined chiefly to the 

 men who fight with their fists. With the Australians 

 only one of my informants has seen the fists clenched. 

 All agree about the body being held erect; and all, with 

 two exceptions, state that the brows are heavily con- 

 tracted. Some of them allude to the firmly-compressed 

 mouth, the distended nostrils, and flashing eyes. Accord- 

 ing to the Eev. Mr. Taplin, rage, with the Australians, 

 is expressed by the lips being protruded, the eyes being 

 widely open; and in the case of the women by their danc- 

 ing about and casting dust into the air. Another ob- 



13 Le Brim, in his well-known ' Conference sur l'Expres- 

 sion ' (' La Physionomie, par Lavater,' edit, of 1820, vol. ix. 

 p. 268), remarks that anger is expressed by the clenching" 

 of the fists. See, to the same effect, Huschke, ' Mimices 

 et Physiognomices, Fragmentum Plrysiologieum,' 1824, p. 

 20. Also Sir C. Bell, ' Anatomy of Expression,' p. 219. 



