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months old. There was nothing remarkable about them. The eldest, about 6 

 years old, had also nothing to distinguish her from an ordinary Burmese. 

 The youngest child was about 2 J years old when IMr. Crawftird saw her, 

 and was born with hair within the anterior portion of the ear. at sux months 

 it began to appear aU over the ears, and at one year old on different parts of 

 the body The hair was of a light flaxen colour and fine sUky texture. This 

 child grew up to be the mother of the two hairy beings like herself, whose 

 photographs are before you. Shwe-Maong, the father, had been occasionaUy 

 employed at the court as a buffoon, having been taught to imitate the antics 

 of a monkey ; for these feats however he was not very UberaUy rewarded ; he was a 

 basket-maker by trade. 



-vnien Colonel Yule visited Burmah on a mission to the Court of Ava in 

 1855, he found Shwe-Maong's hairy daughter grown up, and the mother, as I 

 have said, of two children. The mother's name is Maphoon ; the whole of her 

 face was more or less covered with hair, on a part of the cheek and between the 

 nose and mouth, this was confined to a short down, but over aU the rest of 

 the face was a thick silky hair of a brown colour, paling about the nose and chin 

 four or five inches long. In and upon the ears the hair was most extraordinary, 

 except the extreme upper tip, no part of the ear was visible ; all the rest was 

 filled and veiled by a large mass of silky hair, growing apparently out of every 

 part of the external organ, and hanging in a dependent lock to a length of eight 

 or ten inches. The nose was densely covered with hair, with long fine locks 

 like the wisps of a Skye terrier's coat. The beard was pale in colour, very 

 soft and silky. 



Maphoon's manners were good and modest, her voice soft and feminine, 

 her neck, bosom and arms were covered with a fine pale down. She had the 

 two boys with her when Colonel Yule saw her. The elder who was then five 

 years old had nothing unusual about him ; it will be seen from the photographs 

 of these two children how very abnormal he afterwards became, being now 

 about 18 years old and covered with hair. The younger chUd, about 14 months 

 old when CoL Yule was at Ava, had its ears fuU of long silky floss, and could 

 boast a moustache and beard of pale silky down that would have cheered the 

 heart of many a comet. This child is now about 14 years old, and is repre- 

 sented by the photograph before you. 



Both Shwe-Maong and his daughter Maphoon exhibited a peculiarity in 

 their dental apparatus ; the former had in the lower jaw only five teeth, viz., the 

 four incisors and the left canine ; in the upper jaw there were only four teeth, 

 the two outer ones of which partook of the canine form. The molars were 

 altogether wanting, and had never appeared. The gums were a hard fleshy 

 ridge. JIaphoon likewise never had any molar nor canine teeth. K would 

 appear that hair and teeth are in some inexpUcable manner correlated; where 

 there is an abnormal character in the hair there is an abnormal character in the 

 teeth A great living philosopher, Mr. Darwin, has noticed this apparent 



