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this kind, and a brother and sister of his who are still living are in no 

 wise remarkable for capillary development. Andrian married and had 

 two children, who died young ; one of these was a girl, who resembled 

 her father ; but of the other, a boy, nothing can be ascertained. 



Fedor, whose portrait we give, is Andrian's illegitimate son, and 

 is about three years of age. He is a sprightly child, and apparently 

 more intelligent than his father. The growth of the down on his face 

 is not yet so heavy as to conceal his features, but there is no doubt 

 that when the child comes to full maturity he will be at least as hir- 

 sute as his parent. The hairs are as white and as soft as the fur of 

 the Angora cat, and are longest at the outer angles of the eyes ; there 

 is a thick tuft between the eyes, and the nose is well covered. The 

 mustache joins the whisker on each side, after the English fashion, 

 and this circumstance gives to accurate portraits of the child a ludi- 

 crous resemblance to a well-fed Englishman of about fifty. As in the 

 father's case, the inside of Fedor's nostrils and ears has a thick crop 

 of hair. 



It is remarkable that both Andrian and Fedor are almost toothless, 

 the former possessing only five teeth, one in the upper jaw and four in 

 the lower, while the child has but four teeth, all in the lower jaw. 

 These four teeth are, in both cases, the incisors. To the right of An- 

 drian's one upper tooth there still remains the mark of another which 

 has disappeared. That beyond these six teeth the man never had any 

 others is evident to any one who feels the gums with the finger. 



Buffon, in the supplement to his "Natural History" (1114) men- 

 tions a native of Russia, whom he had seen, and whose entire face was 

 covered with hair. But a more exact counterpart of Andrian is found 

 in a Burmese family living at Ava, and first described by Crawford, an 

 English traveler, in 1829. At the time of Crawford's visit to Ava, Shwe- 

 Maong, the head of this family, was about thirty years of age. His 

 whole body, except the hands and feet, were covered with silky hairs, 

 which, on the shoulders and along the spine, attained the length of 

 five inches. Shwe-Maong arrived at puberty at the age of twenty years, 

 and it was only then that he lost his milk-teeth, which were replaced 

 by five teeth in the upper jaw, one canine and four incisors, and four 

 incisors in the lower jaw. He had four daughters, one only of whom 

 resembled her father. She was found living at Ava by a British 

 officer in 1855, who states that her son was hairy like his grandfather, 

 Shwe-Maong. 



In " Animals and Plants under Domestication," Darwin mentions 

 Julia Pastrana, a Spanish dancer, or opera-singer; she was "a remark- 

 ably fine woman, but she had a thick, masculine beard, and a hairy 

 forehead; she was photographed, and her stuffed skin was exhibited 

 for a show. . . . From the redundancy of her teeth, her mouth pro- 

 jected, and her face had a gorilla-like appearance." A writer in the 

 French journal V Illustration gives us a fuller account of this woman. 



