SECT. II.] NEGRO TYPE. 103 



The disagreeable odour of the Negro has also been considered 

 as a specific peculiarity. But besides the great differences ex- 

 isting in this respect among the Negroes themselves, 1 the native 

 American also emits a peculiar though not so strong an odour 

 (Catinca), as Blumenbach has also mentioned with regard to 

 the Caribs and other natives. It is transmitted by the Negro 

 and American to the Mulatto and Mestizo. 2 The Araucanians 

 especially, who live on animal food, have an extremely dis- 

 agreeable odour, which is in Chili known by the name of 

 " soreno." 3 Hearne, on the other hand, 4 assures us that nothing 

 of the kind is perceived in the North Indians, with proper clean- 

 liness, and Oviedo y Valdes 5 says of the Indians of Panama, 

 that they only smell disagreeably like the Negro when they 

 omit washing for a couple of days. Say 6 attributes the odour 

 of the skin exhalation of the Indians chiefly to the substances 

 which they rub in, observing at the same time that the odour 

 of the white is disagreeable to them. If, as is asserted, the 

 natives of Luzon can distinguish the clothes of their masters 

 by their smell 7 , and the Australians are equally able to do so, 8 

 it results that not only has the skin exhalation of the white 

 race, but that every individual has a specific odour, which is in 

 fact proved by the capacity of the dog to trace his master. A 

 practised dealer in hair is said to be able to distinguish German 

 hair from French hair, and even Irish, Scotch and English hair. 9 

 Though it may be incorrect what Kretzschmar asserts 10 , that 

 whilst the Hottentots emit an intolerable odour, the Bushmen 

 and the Kaffirs are free from it, it still results that the disagree- 

 able odour of the Negro is not to be considered as a specific 



1 The skin exhalation of the Huallenga in Taka, who belong to the Bischaris, 

 is equally disgusting (Werne, " Felzug von Sennar nach Taka/' p. 228, etc., 

 1851). 



2 Humboldt, " Neuspanien," i, p. 192. 



3 Lesson, " Complement des ceuv. de Buffon," ii, 163. 



4 " E. von Prinz Wallis fort, z, Eismeer," p. 257, 1797. 



5 Ternaux, "Recueil de docum. sur 1'hist. des possess, espagnoles dans 

 I'Am.," p. 130, 1840. 



6 In James, " Ace. of an exped. from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mount., 

 Philad.," i, p. 285, 1823. 



7 Mallat, loc. cit., ii, p. 38. 



8 "Australia felix," p. 127, BerL, 1849. 



9 Morgenblatt, no. 110, p. 316, 1855. 



10 " Sudaffr. Skizzin," p. 207, 1853. 



