268 VARIETIES IN THE HAIR, BEARD, 



race many individuals with the short crisp knots of the genuine 

 Negro *, and others with hair of considerable length t. 



Individual instances of red hair occur in the three X dark- 

 coloured varieties of men ; and the soft white hair of the 

 Albino is occasionally seen in all of them. 



The animal kingdom furnishes us with numerous pa- 

 rallel varieties in the colour and texture of the hair ; as for 

 example, in the black sheep, in the black and white horses, 

 in the various hues of cattle; in the white, black, brown, or 

 spotted rabbits ; all undoubtedly produced from the original 

 gray stock. 



Sheep exhibit every kind of covering, from the soft and 

 delicate fleeces of Thibet and Spain, to the coarse and 

 rough hair, which takes the place of wool in very warm 



* Peron Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes ; p. i. ; pi. 8, 10, 

 11, 12. The individual represented in pi. 11 is a complete Negro in colour 

 and hair: all these are natives of Van Diemen's Land. Capt. Cook says 

 that their hair is as woolly as that of any Negro ; Voyage to the Pacific; 

 i. 96 : and Mr. Anderson concurs in this representation; ibid. 112. 



+ Peron, ibid. pi. 17 represents a New Hollander with lar2;e and loose 

 curls; in pi. 18 and 21 the curl is not considerable: and in the former the 

 hair is very long. In an individual, who came to England, and had learned 

 to pay attention to cleanliness and dress, the hair was long and copious. 

 Collins' Account of New South Wales, p. 554; and portrait, p. 439. 



*' Lcs habitans de la terre de Diemen ont les cheveux courts, laineux et 

 crepus; ceux de la Nouvelle HoUande les ont droits, longs, et roides.'' 

 Peron, vol. ii.p. 164. 



:}: Red-haired Africans and Mulattoes are mentioned by "WiNXERBOTTo^r, 

 on the Native Africans, \. 193; BunrENBACH, Pe Gen. Hum. Var. Nat. 

 p. 169 ; and others. Charlevoix mentions similar facts of the Eskimaux, 

 Hist, de la Nouv. France, iii- 179; Gmelin of the Wotiaks, Reise durch 

 Sibinen, i. 89 ; and Sonnerat of the Papuas, Voy. a la Nouv. Guinee, 153. 

 FoRSTER saw individuals with yellowish brown or sandy hair at Otaheite ; 

 Obsv. on a Voyage round the World; p. 229 ; and a single man at Otaha, 

 (one of the Friendly Islands) with perfectly red hair (/(^/rf. 230). Among 

 the tawny and black-haired natives of Chinese Tatary, and of the neighbour- 

 ing great island of Tehoka or Sagalien, individuals were soen Avith chesnut 

 coloured hair. Rollin, in Perouse's Voyage; v. iii. pp. 235, 242. In- 

 stances of brown and fair (blond) hair occur among the Mongolianjtribes, 

 according to Pallas, but they are very rare. Samnilungcn iiber die Mon. 

 golischm Volkerschaftcn ; Ir th. p. 100. 



