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TRAVELS IN BRAZIL* 



some education, that we perceived in the Indians, 

 a change of colour, expressive of the emotions of 

 the mind. Their skin is very fine, soft, shining, 

 and, when exposed to the sun, inclined to perspir- 

 ation. Their long, coarse, stiff, and glossy black 

 hair, hangs down thick and in a disorderly manner. 

 The beard of the men is in general thin, but we 

 saw some men with thick beards. The crown of 

 the head and the cheek bones are broad, correspond- 

 ing with the breadth of the breast. The forehead 

 is low, the temple projecting, narrow above and 

 falling very much back. The back part of the 

 head by no means hangs so low as in the negro, 

 whose skull is, indeed, narrow, and much more ob- 

 long than that of the Indian. The countenance 

 is broad and angular, and projects much less than 

 in the negro, but more than in the Calmuck or the 

 European. The ears are small, neatly made, rather 

 turned outwards, not pierced and disfigured by 

 heavy bodies ; the eyes, small and dark brown, 

 placed sideways, the inner corner turned towards 

 the nose ; the eyebrows, thin and very high in the 

 middle ; the nose is short, slightly depressed above, 

 broad below, but not so spread as in the negro ; the 

 nostrils, wide, standing very little out ; the lips by 

 no means so thick and swollen as in the negro, the 

 upper, not the lower, projects a little, or both are 

 alike ; the mouth is smaller and more closed than 

 in the negro. The teeth are very white ; the front 

 teeth very broad and even ; the eye-teeth project. 



