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parts of her body very white ; in short, her ap- 

 pearance is in every respect, except the one 

 which has been mentioned, that of a very fair 

 female of the white race of mankind. 



The parts covered by the black skin are, the 

 left shoulder, arm, fore-arm, and hand. All 

 these parts, however, are not universally black ; 

 for on the outside of the fore-arm, a little below 

 the elbow, a stripe of white skin commences, 

 about two inches in breadth, and differing in 

 no circumstance from the skin of the other arm, 

 which, proceeding upwards, gradually bends 

 under the arm, and at the arm-pit joins with the 

 white skin of the trunk of the body. The black 

 skin, wherever it is contiguous to the white, 

 terminates rather abruptly, so that its boundary 

 may always be distinctly traced. 



The colour of the black skin is not every 

 where uniformly dark. Thus, the skin of the 

 back of the hand, and of the wrist, is marked 

 by fine lines of a reddish black, which cross 

 one another at right angles, while the small 

 rectangular spaces bounded by these lines are 

 entirely black. Part of the cuticle of the hand 

 having been removed by exciting a blister, the 

 reddish lines were found to be the summits of 

 very thin folds of the true skin, which were raised 

 above its general level, and were less thickly 

 covered with the black rete mucosum than the 



