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puans of the Malay archipelago, who are nearly as black 
as negroes, possess well-developed beards.^® In the 
Pacific Ocean the inhabitants of the Fiji archipelago 
have large bushy beards, whilst those of the not-distant 
archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are beardless ; but 
these men belong to distinct races. In the Ellice group 
all the inhabitants belong to the same race; yet on 
one island alone, namely Nunemaya, the men have 
splendid beards;” whilst on the other islands ‘^they 
‘^have, as a rule, a dozen straggling hairs for a beard.” 
Throughout the great American continent the men 
may be said to be beardless ; but in almost all the tribes 
a few short hairs are apt to appear on the face, espe- 
cially during old age. With the tribes of North America^ 
Gatlin estimates that eighteen out of twenty men are 
completely destitute by nature of a beard; but occa- 
sionally there may be seen a man, who has neglected to 
pluck out the hairs at puberty, with a soft beard an inch 
or two in leDgth. The Guaranys of Paraguay differ 
from all the surrounding tribes in having a small beard,, 
and even some hair on the body, but no Avhiskersd^ I 
am informed by Mr. D. Forbes, who particularly attended 
to this subject, that the Aymaras and Quichuas of the 
Cordillera are remarkably hairless, yet in old age a few 
straggling hairs occasionally appear on the chin. The 
men of these two tribes have very little hair on the 
various parts of the body where hair grows abundantly 
pure negroes and their crossed offspring seem to have bodies almost as- 
hairy as those of Europeans. 
Wallace, ‘ The Malay Arch.’ vol. ii. 1869, p. 178. 
Dr. J. Barnard Davis on Oceanic Eaces, in ‘ Anthropolog. Eeview,’' 
April, 1870, p. 185, 191. 
Gatlin, ‘ North American Indians,’ 3rd edit. 1842, vol. ii. p. 227.. 
On the Guaranys, see Azara, ‘ Voyages dans TAmerique Merid.’ tom. ii. 
1809, p. 58; also Eengger, ‘ Saugethiere von Paraguay,’ s. 3. 
