THE ADMIRALTY ISLANDS. 459 



native of Api, New Hebrides, is of about the same coarseness 

 as the Admiralty Island hair, but the curls are of much smaller 

 diameter. The hair of the Api Islanders seems to be remarkable 

 for the fineness of its curls. In Tongan hair the curls are of far 

 larger diameter than those of the Papuan or Admiralty Island 

 hair. 



The fineness of the curl of the hair in various Polynesian 

 and Papuan races which I have seen, seems to be pretty con- 

 stant in each race and characteristic. It might be estimated by 

 measuring the diameter of the circles formed by the separate 

 spirally twisted hairs, and taking the average of several measure- 

 ments. No doubt a certain curve of the hair follicles corresponds 

 with and produces the curl in the hairs, as in the case of the 

 hair follicles of the negro as discovered by Mr. Stewart.* But 

 the amount of curve will be peculiar to each race. The hair of 

 both head and body of the Admiralty Islanders is naturally 

 black, that of the head being of a glossy black. 



The hair of the men's bodies was not at all abundant, nor by 

 any means so plentiful as it is often seen to be on the bodies of 

 Europeans, the hairiness of whom is apt to be underrated. I 

 lately saw in a travelling show an abnormally hairy Englishman. 

 His back and chest were covered with a thick growth of coarse 

 black hair, as thick as that of a gorilla. Unlike most ab- 

 normally hairy examples of the human race, the hair was not 

 continued over the whole body, but ceased at certain lines on 

 his arms. 



The continuous covering ceased abruptly at these lines, but 

 beyond them were scattered small isolated hairy patches, which 

 formed a sort of gradation to the ordinary bare skin beyond. 

 These small patches, the tailing off of the hairy covering, were 

 regular hairy moles, such as occur so frequently on various parts 

 of the body in Europeans. It would seem therefore not im- 

 probable that such moles are in reality small patches of the 

 original coating of long hair of the ancestral man, a small spot of 

 the skin, returning by atavism to its ancestral condition. 



Each organ and each histological tissue in animals and plants 



* Charles Stewart, F.L.S., "Note on the Scalp of a Negro." Micro- 

 scopical Journal, 1873, p. 54. 



