IN THE HUMAN SPECIES. 241. 



not how to blush?' s:iys the European, in his inveterate 

 hatred to tlie Negro and the Indian*." 



Yet in some very light examples of the brown and yellow 

 varieties, blushing has beennotieed; as by Forster f, in 

 the fairest Otaheitean women ; and by Dampier J, in the 

 Tunquinese : " They are," he observes, " of a tawny Indian 

 colour ; but, I think, the fairest and clearest I ever saw of 

 that complexion, for you may perceive a blush or change 

 of colour in some of their faces on any sudden surprise of 

 passion, which I could never discern in any other Indians." 



Considerable variety, however, will be found to exist in 

 the colour known by the general epithet white. 



That singular description of human beings called Albinos, 

 possesses a skin of a peculiar reddish, or an unnatural white 

 tint, with corresponding yellowish white or milk-white hair, 

 and red, or at least very light blue or grey eyes. The cuta- 

 neous organ has sometimes a roughness, which has been 

 construed as an approach to a degree of lepra § . The hair 



* Personal Narrative, v. iii. p. 229. 



Mr. Chappell says of the Esquimaux, that '* the complexion is a dusky 

 yellow, but some of the young women have a little colour bursting through 

 this dark tint." Narrative of a Voyage to Iladson's Bay, p. 58. 



f Observations made on a Voyage round the World; p. 229. He says 

 that the complexion of the chiefs, or best-formed race in Otaheite, " is of a 

 white, tinctured with a brownish yellow, however not so strongly mixed but 

 that on the cheek of the fairest of the women jyou may easily distinguish a 

 spreading blush. 



f Voyages, v. ii. p. 40. 



§ Blumenbacji has given an interesting description^of two brothers who 

 live in the Vale of Chamouny. " Cutis eorum, prater ruborem singularem, 

 maxime in facie conspicuum, proeprimis epidermide in niveos et tenellos 

 furfures quasi fatiscente, memorabilis erat. Capilli autem lanae caprinae 

 similes, turn recto et omnis inflexus experto decursu, turn insueto colore ex 

 albo singulariter flavescente, erant insignes. Quibus etiam cilia, et super- 

 cilia, et pubes tenella, cum mentum turn reliquum corpus obsidens, respon- 

 debant." De Oculis Leuccethiopum, et Iridis MotUy in Commentation. Reg, 

 Soc. Scient. Goctting. v. vii. 



Dr. WiNTERBOTTOM saw a white African woman with a remarkably 

 coarse and wrinkled skin : it was dry and harsh to the touch, and marked 

 with deep furrows. It had a reddish tinge in parts exposed to the sun, 

 being of a dirty white in other situations. Black spots, like freckles, of the 



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