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complexion here seems undoubted. The name was 

 Gomez. Of this family six photos were made. One 

 of the girl alone, two of the girl with her mother, one 

 of the boy alone, and two of the boy with his father. 

 None of these give the true sharply-defined contrasts 

 between these people, because the photographs were 

 taken on ordinary films instead of on panchromatic 

 plates with colour filters. The expression " Arab 

 type " is a common one in Southern Spain, where the 

 type is found. 



The following photos were made in the Arab 

 quarter: Two "Arab type" boys not brothers; 

 another dark Arab type woman with her child, the 

 latter with flaxen hair and very white skin. The 

 father, she said, was fair. There were also taken 

 three sisters — one pure Arab type, one intermediate 

 and a fair baby. (Illustration I.) A group of 

 people in the Arab quarter, was also photographed, 

 and a man with his wife, both very dark, and their 

 child, a flaxen-haired little one with light-blue eyes. 



The larger number of dark over fair persons in 

 Granada was noticed from the first, and confirmed 

 by daily observation. 



A plan for the more accurate reckoning of the 

 colour-types of the population was arranged by 

 counting the persons met with in the streets. My 

 niece counted the dark and I the fair. We both 

 walked upon the same side of the street, started 

 and stopped the reckoning at a given moment. Mixed 

 types which combined blue or grey eyes, with very 

 dark skin and black hair, or fair skin w4th black hair 



