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though the red colour Is very prevalent on the American con- 

 tinent, travellers have observed fair tribes in several parts ; 

 as, Ulloa * and Bouguer f in Peru ,• Cook X and Van- 

 couver § at Nootka Sound; Humboldt || near the sources 

 of the Orinoco ; and Weld near the United States. The 

 natives of New Zealand vary from a deepish black to an 

 olive or yellowish tinge %, In the Friendly Islands many 

 of the women are as fair as those of Spain or Portugal ; se- 

 veral of both sexes are of an olive colour ; and many of a 

 deep brown *'*. 



The domestic animals exhibit varieties entirely analogous 

 to those which have been just enumerated ; a fact so fami- 

 liarly known with respect to the sheep, pig, horse, cow, 

 dog, cat, rabbit, &c., that it cannot be necessary to support 

 the assertion by any details. The leucaethiopic constitu- 

 tion occurs too in wild and domesticated animals, as well 

 as in the human subject. It has been observed (not to 

 mention the well-known examples of the rabbit, ferret, 

 mouse, horse,) in the monkey, squirrel, rat, hamster, 

 guinea-pig, mole, opossum, martin, weasel, roe ff, 

 fox J J, rhinoceros §§, elephant ||||, badger, beaver If If, bear, 



* Voyage to South America ; i. 237. 



f Relation ahregee du Voyage, 8^c. ; in Acad, des Sciences, 1740, p. 274. 

 He represents the Peruvians at the foot of the Cordilleras to be nearly as 

 white as Europeans. 



+ He represents the colour of their skin as not very different from that of 

 Europeans, but with a pale dull cast. Voyage to the Pacific ; ii. 303. 

 § Voyage; i. 395. 



II Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain; i. 144. 

 H Anderson in Cook's Voyage to the Pacific ; i. 154. 

 ** Cook's Voyage to the Pacific ; i. 3S1. 

 + + Blumenbach de G. H. Var. Nat. sect. iii. § 78. 

 XX Shaw's Zoology. 



^% Barrow's Travels in South Africa ; i. 395. 



nil '' The white elephants are very rare, and highly valued ; they receive 

 the greatest care and attention, and are regarded in some cases with a kind 

 of religious respect. One of his Birman majesty's titles is, ' Lord of the white 

 elephant.' " Symes' Embassy to Ava ; 8vo. v. ii. p. 390; and v. iii. p. S38. 

 II ![ The beaver may deviate either into white or black. The white are very 

 scarce ; the black are beautifully glossy, and more common. Hearne's 

 Journey to the Northern Ocean, p. 241. 



