Cap. IX. The Canbby- Iflands. 



Emperour ^dr/dtf, who firft fuffer'd his to grow 5 before that 

 time it was thought among them fo honourable a thing to wear 

 no beards that there was a prohibition made that Slaves Ihould 

 not (have theirs: The fame prohibition extended alfo to a]l 

 perfons charg'd with any Crime, as it were to let a mark of 

 infamy on them, till fuch time as they were clear'd, as AhIus C4 

 Gellius affirms:, which proceeding was contrary to what is pra- 

 ctise! in the Grand Seigniors Territories, who caufes the Beard 

 ro be (haven, as a mark of ignominy In the year One thou- 

 fand fix hundred fifty two, that hapned to the French Confal at 

 Alexandria^ being charg'd with having done fome unhandfom 

 things in his Employment | his Beard had fuch a natural graceful 

 curl , and was of fo fair a flaxen colour , that fome Turks 

 would have given him a confiderable fum of money for it, and 

 kept it for a Rarity 5 but he chofe rather to bring it along with 

 him into France* 



The Caribbians wonder very much to fee our Europeans fiif- 

 fer their Beards to grow fo long, and think it a great defor- 

 mity to wear any, as they account it a perfe&ion in themfelves 

 to have none j but they are not the only Savages who are fan- 

 taftick in matter of gracefulnefs and beauty : All barbarous 

 Nations, nay fome that are civiliz'd, are wedded to their par- 

 ticular fentiments, as to that point : For inftance, among the ihi r i s a f- 

 Maldivefes it is accounted an accompliihment of Beauty to have firmed by di- 

 the body all over hairy 5 which among us would be thought vers Hjjlori- 

 more becoming a Bear then a Man .* Among the Mexicans 0 to ans -> t0 ° ma ' 

 have a little narrow forehead, and that full of hair: Among W*° b "* ttt l 

 the Japonefes, not to have any hair at all $ whence it comes a 

 that they are ever employ'd in the plucking of it off, leaving 

 only a little tuft on the crown of the head: Among the Tar- 

 tarian Women it is thought a piece of Beauty to be flat-nos'd, 

 but to heighten the attractions of their nofes, they rub them 

 with a very black unguent : Among the Inhabitants of Guinny 

 they make the fame account of great nails and flat nofes 5 and 

 thence it comes that affoon as the children are come into the 

 world, they crufh down their nofes with their thumbs, as do 

 alfo the Brazilians : Among thofe of the Province of Cufco in 

 Peru, and fome oriental Inhabitants of the Indies ,as alfo among 

 the Calechtians, and the Malabar s^ it is thought very graceful 

 to have extraordinary large ears, hanging down over their 

 fhoulders •, infomuch that fome among them ufe divers artifi- 

 ces to make them fuch : Among the JEthiopians^ great lips and 

 a skin black as Jet, are thought beautiful : The Negroes of 

 Mofambico are extreamly pleas'd to have their teeth very 

 .(harp, fo that lame ufe Files to make them fuch .• Among the 

 Maldivefes they are no lefs defirous to have them red, and to 

 that end, they are continually chewing of Petel: Among the 

 Japonefes and the Cumanefes , they are induftrious t® have 



them 



