CHiP. XIX.] BEAUTY. 331 



Zulu king is, "You who are black."" Mr. Galton, in 

 speaking to me about the natives of Soiithern Africa, re- 

 marked that their ideas of beauty seem very different fi'om 

 ours ; for in one tribe two slim, slight, and pretty girls were 

 not admired by the natives. 



Turning to other quarters of the world : in Java, a 

 yellow, not a white girl, is considered, according to Ma- 

 dame Pfeiffer, a beauty. A man of Cochin-China " spoke 

 with contempt of the wife of the English ambassador, that 

 she had white teeth like a dog, and a rosy color like that 

 of potato-flowers." We have seen that the Chinese disli'ke 

 our white skin, and that the North Americans admire " a 

 tawny hide." In South America, the Yura-caras, who in- 

 habit the wooded, damp slopes of the eastern Cordillera, 

 are remarkably pale-colored, as their name in their own 

 language expresses ; nevertheless, they consider European 

 women as very inferior to their own.*' 



In several of the tribes of North America the hair on 

 the bead grows to a wonderful length ; and Catlin gives a 

 curious proof how much this is esteemed, for the chief of 

 the Crows was elected to this ofiice from having the longest 

 hair of any man in the tribe, namely ten feet and seven 

 inches. The Aymaras and Quichuas of South America 

 likewise have very long hair ; and this, as Mr. D. Forbes 

 informs me, is so much valued for the sake of beauty, that 

 cutting it off was the severest punishment which he could 

 inflict on them. In both halves of the continent the na- 



65 'Mungo Park's Travels in Africa,' 4to, 1816, pp. 53, 131. Burton's 

 statement is quoted by Schaaff hausen, ' Archiv fiir Anthropolog.' 1866, 

 s. 163. On the Banyai, Livingstone, ' Travels,' p. 64. On the Kafirs, 

 the Rev. J. Shooter, ' The Kafirs of Natal and the Zulu Country,' 1857, 

 p. 1. 



5^ For the Javanese and Cochin- Chinese, see Waitz, ' Introduct. to 

 Anthropology,' Eng. translat. vol. i. p. 305. On the Yura-caras, A. 

 d'Orligny, as quoted in Pritchard, ' Phys. Hist, of Mankind,' vol. v. 3d 

 edit. p. 476. 



