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tlieir vanity. Burcliell^^ gives an amusing account of 
a Busli-woman, who used so much grease, red ochre, 
and shining powder, as would liave ruined any but a 
very rich husband.” She displayed also much vanity 
and too evident a consciousness of her superiority.” 
Mr. Winwood Eeade informs me that the negroes of 
the West Coast often discuss the beauty of their women. 
Some competent observers have attributed the fearfully 
common practice of infanticide partly to the desire felt 
by the women to retain their good looks.^^ In several 
regions the women wear charms and love-philters to 
gain the atfections of the men ; and Mr. Brown enume- 
rates four plants used for this purpose by the women of 
North-Western America.^^ 
Hearne,^^ who lived many years with the American 
Indians, and who was an excellent observer, says, in 
speaking of the women, “ A sk a Northern Indian what 
is beauty, and he will answer, a broad flat face, small 
eyes, high cheek-bones, three or four broad black lines 
across each cheek, a low forehead, a large broad chin, 
a clumsy hook nose, a tawny hide, and breasts hanging 
down to the belt.” Pallas, who visited the northern 
parts of the Chinese empire, says those women are 
preferred who have the Mandschu form ; that is to say, 
a broad face, high cheek-bones, very broad noses, and 
“ enormous ears ;” and Vogt remarks that the obliquity 
of the eye, which is proper to the Chinese and Japanese, 
‘ Travels in S. Africa/ 1824, vol. i. p. 414. 
See, for references, ‘Gerland fiber das Aussterben der Xaturvblker,’ 
1S68, s. 51, 53, 55 ; also Azara, ‘ Yoyages,’ &c. tom. ii. p. 116. 
On the vegetable productions used by the North-Western Amori- 
eau Indians, ‘ Pharmaceutical Journal,’ vol. x. 
‘ A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort,’ 8vo. edit. 1796, p. 89. 
Quoted by Prichard, ‘Phys. Hist, of Mankind,’ 3rd edit. vol. iv. 
1844, p. 519; Yogt, ‘Lectures on Man,’ Eng. translat. p. 129. On the 
opinion of the Chinese on the Cingalese, E. Tennent, ‘ Ceylon,’ vol. ii. 
1859, p. 107. 
