SECT. II.] BLUSHING. 135 



not for fresh importations. Knox 1 asserts the same thing of 

 the Anglo-Saxon race in America. 



The capacity of Hushing has often been considered as a 

 peculiarity of the white man, and has been denied to other 

 races, and especially to the Negro. Blushing, however, is not 

 merely seen in Mulattoes, and in delicate women of the black 

 race (Lawrence, Lectures, p. 240), but also in Negroes. 2 Monrad 3 

 asserts that Negresses become darker when influenced by the 

 sense of shame. The Australians also blush. 4 Though the 

 blushings of dark-complexioned peoples must not be taken 

 exactly in the same sense as these phenomena among the 

 whites, still a certain change, a deepening of the colour, 

 in consequence of some emotions, is perceptible in the former. 

 We are, therefore, surprised to find that Both 5 denies this 

 capacity altogether to the Abyssinians. D'Orbigny observes 

 that the native Americans also blush, though not very percep- 

 tibly on account of their complexion. According to Spix 

 and Martius, 6 the change of colour resulting from emotions is 

 confined to educated Indians, who have much intercourse with 

 the whites. The Kalmucks are said not to become red from 

 shame, but pale from fear and terror. 7 The common changes 

 of colour in the face have also been observed in the inhabitants 

 of Tahiti, Marquesas, and New Zealand. 8 



It deserves to be mentioned as a striking peculiarity in the for- 

 mation of speech-sounds, the cause of which some have sought 

 for in the organs themselves, that the Negroes have no r, the 

 Australians no s y and that in Polynesia, the Fiji and Navigation 

 islands excepted, the hissing sounds are wanting. The dialect 

 of Eimatara, Eurutu, Tubuai, and Raivavai seems to have the 



1 " The races of man," 1850. 



2 Dupuy, " Journal of a resid. in Ashantee," p. 149, 1824 ; Golberry, " E. 

 durch d. West Afr.," ii, p. 307, Lpz. 1803. 



" Gemalde der. k. v. Guinea," p. 60, 1824. 



4 Barrington, " Hist, of N. S. Wales," p. 10, 1810. 



5 Wagner, " Gesch. der Urwelt," p. 269, 1845. 



6 " Journey," p. 376. 



7 Bergmann, ii, p. 54. 



8 Forster, " Bermerk auf. s. E. um d. Welt," p. 204, 1783; Kotzebue, 

 " Neue E. um die W.," i, p. 73, 1830 ; Melville, " Vier Monate auf d. Mar- 

 quesas," i, 166, Lpz. 1847 ; Mundy, " Our Antipodes, or resid. in the Austr. 

 col.," ii, p. 127, 1852. 



