SEGREGATION OF HUMAN TYPES 23 



The greater number were high featured, dark, and 

 tall. 



No observations were made at Ronda. 



The Province of Granada. 



In the Arab quarter of the town of Granada 

 called the Albaicin, the descendants of the Moors live 

 separately from the Spaniards with whom, however, 

 they occasionally intermarry. 



The first interesting case in the Arab quarter was 

 a blue -eyed child with dazzling white skin, rosy 

 cheeks, and an aureole of golden curls, a boy of about 

 eighteen months old in the arms of a woman of true 

 Arab type, possessing black hair, dark olive skin, and 

 black eyes. When asked, she said the child was her 

 own, and that her husband was " rojo " (fair) ; the 

 sight of this little fair-skinned child nestling its golden 

 curls against the mother's black head was striking. 

 A photograph was taken of the two. The guide now 

 led the way into an old Mauresque house. Over the 

 balcony hung a fair girl who beckoned us up. We 

 entered, and found her brother to be a pure Arab, 

 smooth, raven-black hair, black eyes, and a skin of 

 the deepest olive brown. The mother stood beside 

 them, also Moorish type, black hair and dark skin, 

 but the eyes were grey. I asked what the father was. 

 The reply was " Moreno " (black) Arab type. To a 

 question about the grandparents, the mother replied 

 that her father was " Rojo," a fair man, from whence 

 came her grey eyes. Thus in part was the fair grand- 

 child accounted for. The segregation of hair colour and 



