CURIOUS CREATURES. 49 



There were two wonderful hairy people at Ava, in 

 Burmah, who are described by two most trustworthy 

 eye-witnesses, John Crawford, in his "Journal of an 

 Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the 

 Court of Ava " and in 1855, by Captain Henry Youle, 

 in his " Narrative of the Mission sent by the Governor- 

 General of India to the Court of Ava." They were 

 father and daughter, respectively named Shu-Maon, and 

 Maphoon. The father may strictly be said to have had 

 neither eyelashes, eyebrows, nor beard, because the 

 whole of his face, including the interior and exterior of 

 his ears, were covered with long silky silvery grey hair. 

 His whole body, except his hands and feet, was covered 

 with hair of the same texture and colour as that now 

 described, but generally less abundant ; it was most 

 plentiful over the spine and shoulders, where it was five 

 inches long ; over the breast, about four inches, and was 

 most scanty on the arms, legs, thighs, and abdomen. 



Of the daughter, Captain Youle writes : " The whole of 

 Maphoon's face was more or less covered with hair. On 

 a part of the cheek, and between the nose and mouth, 

 this was confined to a short down, but over all the rest 

 of the face was a thick silky hair of a brown colour, 

 paleing about the nose and chin, four or five inches long. 

 At the alae of the nose, under the eye, and on the cheek 

 bone this was very fully developed ; but it was in, and 

 on, the ear, that it was most extraordinary. Except the 

 upper tip, no part of the ear was visible. All the rest 

 was filled and veiled with a large mass of silky hair, 

 growing apparently out of every part of the external 

 organ, and hanging a pendant lock to a length of eight 

 or ten inches. The hair over her forehead was brushed 

 so as to blend with the hair of the head, the latter being 



