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of all parts of the body is unnaturally white and soft ; it has 

 not the snowy whiteness of old age, nor the elegant light 

 yellow or flaxen appearance of the fair-haired (blondins Fr.) 

 German variety ; l3ut it is compared to that of milk or cream, 

 or of a white horse. The eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, the 

 hair of other ])arts, and often a soft down covering the 

 whole body, are of the same colour. The iris is of a pale 

 rose colour, and the pupil intensely red*: these parts, in 

 short, are exactly similar to the corresponding ones in white 

 rabbits and ferrets f. 



size of a pea, were thickly scattered over the skin. Another tall and 

 well-formed white Negro had a similar rough, harsh, and freckled skin. 

 Another young white Negress had the skin of an unpleasant dead-looking 

 white, and pretty smooth, but beginning to assume a cracked appearance 

 from ihe action of the sun. Ace. of the Native Africans , v. ii. p. 167. 170. 



In five or six seen by Capt. Cook at Otaheite, the skin was of a dead 

 white, like the nose of a white horse, scurfy, and covered with a white 

 down ; they had white hair, beard, eyebrows, and eyelashes. Hawkes- 

 WORTH, Voyages^ v. ii. p. 188. 



* " Oculi in universum cuniculorum alborum oculis perfecte similes : 

 iride nempe tenella et fere pellucidula, valde mobili, quasi oscillante, et 

 qu» jam sub modica luce late expandebatur; colore diluto, inter pallide 

 violaceum et rubellum medio. Pupillis au(em saturate rubicundis et fere 

 rutilis, qualis succi rubi idaei intensior esse solet." Blumenbach in lib. cit. 



+ Two African Albinos were brought to France, and seen by Voltaire, 

 who has selected and shortly characterized their leading traits: *' Leur blan- 

 cheur n'est pas la n6tre; rien d'incarnat, nul mdiange de blanc et de brun, 

 c'est une couleiir de linge, ou plutot de cire blanchie; leurs cheveux, leurs 

 sourcils sont de la plus belle et de la plus douce sole ; leurs yeux ne res- 

 semblent en rien a ceux des autres hommes, mais ils approchent beaucoup 

 des yeux de perdrix." Essn/ sur ?es il/^Mrs, Introduction. They are also 

 described by Buffox, Supplement^ t. iv, p. 559. 



Pallas has minutely described a " Leucoethiopissa elegantissima," whom 

 he saw in London in 1761. " Sedecim tunc circiter annos nata, et a patre 

 atque matre nigritis in Jamaica insula genita decibatur, de quo tanto minus 

 dubitari poterat, quum nihil hybridge ex albo nigroque parente geniturne 

 simile prsc se ferret. Staturo2 erat minoris, artubus et coUo turgidulis, cute 

 sanguineo-phlegmaticffi tincturoe Candida, labiis rubris et rubicundis genls 

 vigens, vultu omnino vEthiopis, naso quassato, labiis tumidis, fronte bievi, 

 circumscriptione faciei subrotunda, notis variolarum sparsis cutem minus 

 teneram distinguentibus. Oculorum irides neque rubri nee csesii, sed griseo- 

 lutescentis erant colons ; neque visus nocturnus, sed tamen aperta, lucis in- 



