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not think he had much of a mustache, but probably his eye- 

 brows "beetled." The hair was wavy or curly; it may have 

 had a tendency to be lank, straight, and stiff on the head, but 

 this is doubtful. It was not so woolly as that of the negro. His 

 children probably had a rich Titian red or bronzy coat of fur, 

 like that which one sees on young Galloway cattle. In the 

 epidermis (vulgarly the outer skin) as well as in the hair 

 were both black and orange pigment, but on the whole he was 

 probably moderately dark-skinned. 11 



The most delicious part of the description, here 

 quoted in part only, is the conscientious qualifica- 

 tion, "But this is doubtful," applied to the stiff- 

 ness of the hair upon the head. All else is ap- 

 parently certain. The reason for selecting both 

 "black and orange pigment" for the skin and hair 

 of the furry Pliocene babies, who were to be the 

 proud forefathers and granddames of our race, 

 is thus given in the footnote: "Changes of this 

 character occur in the pelage of some monkeys and 

 lemurs Pitheda leucocephala, Mycetes caraya, 

 Lemur macaco." 



So the subject is settled forever, the case is 

 closed, and who would dare to raise a doubt 

 except for that one exquisite particular: the stiff- 

 ness of the mossy hair on the ancestral head: 

 "dark thick hair," amid which "the little ape-like 

 ears could hardly be seen." His nose, all that 

 there was to it, was "of the most retrousse" Even 

 the minutest habits of the early social and domes- 

 tic life of this noble, though "slightly bandy- 



11 "Prehistoric Man and His Story," pp. 58, 59- 



