380 DIFFERENCES OF STATURE. 



they were tall, robust, and muscular 3 their habits of life 

 had induced a firmness of carriage, and an open manly 

 manner, which, added to the good-nature that overspread 

 their features, shewed them at once to be wholly unconscious 

 of fear, suspicion, and treachery. A young man about 

 twenty, of 6 feet 10 inches high, was one of the finest 

 figures that perhaps was ever created. He was a perfect 

 Hercules ; and a cast from his body would not have dis- 

 graced the pedestal of that deity in the Farnese palace*." 



He states in another place, that " there is perhaps no 

 nation on earth, taken collectively, that can produce so fine 

 a race of men as the Kaffers : they are tall, stout, muscular, 

 well-made, elegant figures. They are exempt, indeed, from 

 many of those causes that, in more civilized societies, con- 

 tribute to impede the growth of the body. Their diet is 

 simple ; their exercise of a salutary nature ; their body is 

 neither cramped nor encumbered by clothing ; the air they 

 breathe is pure ; their rest is not disturbed by violent love, 

 nor their minds ruffled by jealousy; they are free from those 

 licentious appetites which proceed frequently more from a 

 depraved imagination than a real natural want ; their frame 

 is neither shaken nor enervated by the use of intoxicating 

 liquors, which they are not acquainted with : they eat when 

 hungry, and sleep when nature demands it. With such a 

 kind of life, languor and melancholy have little to do. The 

 countenance of a Kaffer is always cheerful ; and the whole 

 of his demeanour bespeaks content and peace of mind f." 



LicHTENSTEiN % givcs a Similar description of this peo- 

 ple ', and mentions one individual as 7 feet high (Rhynland 

 measure.) 



The several people classed under the Mongolian variety 

 are shorter in stature than the Europeans; but, like the 

 nations belonging to the other varieties, they exhibit differ- 

 ences in this respect. The Chinese and Japanese are nearly 

 of the same height with ourselves. 



* Barrow's Southern Jfrica, v. i. p. 169. 



+ Ibid. V. i. p.205. 



;}: Travels in Southern Jfrica, cli. 16 ami 18- 



