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Tibetan type of Mankind. 



[Aug. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Tibetan type of Mankind. — By B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Pe'njur of Lhassa, 30 years old. 



Total height, 5 9 



Length of head, 9 



Girth of head, 1 10 



Crown of head to hip, 2 5 



Hip to heel, 3 4 



Breadth of chest only, „ . 1 4 



Sh. point to Sh. point, 1 5 



Arm and hand, 2 6 



Girth of chest, 3 



Girth of arm, 11 



Girth of forearm, 9 



Girth of thigh, 1 6 



Girth of calf, 1 1 



Length of foot, 10 



Breadth of foot, 3 



Length of head, 7 



Breadth of head, 4 



>3% 



by curve. 



2 f «> 



A fine young man but low in flesh from sickness, and the muscles 

 flaccid. Colour a clear ruddy brownish or brunet rather deep hued, as 

 dark as any of the Cis-Himalayans, and as most high caste Hindus. 

 No red on cheeks which are sunk and hollow. Hair moderately coarse, 

 black, copious, straight, shining, worn long and loose, divided from the 

 top of head. Moustache very small, black. No symptom of beard 

 nor any hair on chest : sufficient on mons martis where it it black and 

 on armpits also. No whiskers. Face moderately large, sub-ovoid, widest 

 between angles of jaws, less between cheek-bones which is prominent 

 but not very. Forehead rather low and narrowing somewhat upwards ; 

 narrowed also transversely and much less wide than the back of head. 

 Frontal sinus large, and brows heavy. Hair of eye brows and lashes, 

 sufficient. Former not arched but obliquely descendant towards the 

 base of nose. Eyes of good size and shape but the inner angle deci- 

 dedly dipt or inclined downwards, though the outer not curved up. 

 Iris a fine deep clear chesnut brown. Eyes wide apart but well and 

 distinctly separated by the basal ridge of nose, not well opened, cavity 



