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red in the spare cheeks, winter though it be. Eye, dark rich brown, 

 and hair throughout, unmixed and pure black. Like the others, he 

 has none of the Esau characteristic, but on the contrary is, as usual, 

 scant of hair, having not a trace of it on the body or limbs, and not 

 much on the face. No beard. No whisker, A very wretched lean 

 moustache and a spare straight eyebrow. Cranium bachyocephalic 

 and large. Vertical view of the head, ovoid not oval, widest between 

 the ears as in the Amdoan. Thence regularly and equally narrowed 

 to the frontal and occipital extremities. No compression nor depres- 

 sion of the cranium, but on the contrary a distinct pyramidal ascen- 

 sion from a broad base, the point of crinal radiation being some- 

 what conically raised from the interaureal and widest part of the 

 scull. Occiput truncate and flattened, that is, not projecting beyond 

 the neck nor rounded posteally, like most heads. Facial angle pretty 

 good, but rather deficient in verticality of profile. Contour of the 

 face (see accompanying sketch) lozenge shape, owing to the large 

 laterally salient cheek bones, though the forehead be not very no- 

 ticeably narrowed (except with reference to its bulging base), nor 

 the chin pointed. Forehead sufficiently good, high but somewhat 

 compressed and retiring, and appearing more so by reason of the 

 heavy frontal sinuses and zygomae which project beyond the temples 

 towards the sides and front. Ears big and salient. Eyes, remote 

 and oblique, with the inner angle down and tumid and the upper lid 

 drooping and drawn to the inner canthus. Nose rather short, 

 straight, not level with the eyes nor yet much raised to separate 

 them nor elsewhere. Not clubbed at the end, but the alse spreading, 

 and the nares large and round. Mouth large and forward with very 

 thick lips, but no prognathism, the teeth being vertical and the lips 

 not gaping so as to expose them. Teeth well formed and well set in 

 an obtusely convex large arch, those of the upper jaw however over- 

 hanging those of the lower. Chin rather retiring, or flat and square. 

 The partial retirement of the chin and the large frontal sinuses are 

 what mar the verticality of the profile which moreover shows little 

 of nasal and much of oral projection. Figure bad with thick goit- 

 rous neck, high forward shoulders, and somewhat bowed legs. Hands 

 and feet well made. Muscular development of arms, poor, of legs, 

 good. A thoroughly Mongolian face, but the ugliness in part redeem- 

 ed by the good-natured placid, yet somewhat dull, expression. 



