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a dififerent standard of taste. Witli the Kaffirs, who differ 

 much from negroes, "the skin, except among the tribes near 

 Delagoa Bay, is not usually black, the prevailing color be- 

 ing a mixture of black and red, the most common shade 

 being chocolate. Dark complexions, as being most com- 

 mon, are naturally held in the highest esteem. To be told 

 that he is light colored, or like a white man, would be 

 deemed a very poor compliment by a Kaffir. I have heard 

 of one unfortunate man who was so very fair that no girl 

 would marry him." One of the titles of the Zulu king is 

 "You who are black."" Mr. Galton, in speaking tg me 

 I about the natives of South Africa, remarked that their ideas 

 of beauty seem very different from ours; for in one tribe 

 two slim, slight, and pretty girls were not admired by the 

 natives. 



Turning to other quarters of the world : In Java, a yel- 

 low, not a white, girl is considered, according to Madame 

 Pfeiffer, a beauty. A man of Cochin China "spoke with 

 contempt of the wife of the English Ambassador, that she 

 had white teeth like a dog, and a rosy color like that of 

 potato flowers." "We have seen that the Chinese dislike 

 our white skin, and that the North Americans admire 

 "a tawny hide." In South America, the Yuracaras, who 

 inhabit the wooded, damp slopes of the eastern Cordillera, 

 are remarkably pale colored, as their name in their own 

 language expresses; nevertheless they consider European 

 women as very inferior to their own." 



In several of the tribes of North America the hair on 

 the head grows to a wonderful length; and Catlin gives 

 a curious proof how much this is esteemed, for the chief 

 of the Crows was elected to this office from having the 



6' Mungo Park's "Travels in Africa," 4to, 1816, pp. 53, 131. Burton's 

 statement is quoted by SchaafEhausen, "Archiv fiir Anthropolog. , " 1866, s. 163. 

 On the Banyai, Livingstone, "Travels," p. 64. On the Kaffirs, the Eev. J. 

 Shooter, "The Kaffirs of Natal and the Zulu Country," 1857, p. 1. 



'2 For the Javans and Cochin- Chinese, see Waitz, "Introduct. to Anthropol- 

 ogy," Eng. translat., vol. i. p. 305. On the Yuracaras, A. d'Orligny, as quoted 

 in Prichard, "Phys. Hist, of Manldnd," vol. v. 3d edit. p. 416. 



