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beauty, and she was so immensely developed behind, that 
when seated on level ground she could not rise, and had 
to push herself along until she came to a slope. Some of 
the women in various negro tribes are similarly charac- 
terised ; and, according to Burton, the Somal men are 
said to choose their wives by ranging them in a line, 
and by picking her out who projects farthest a tergoy 
Nothing can be more hateful to a negro than the 
opposite form.” 
With respect to colour, the negroes rallied Mungo- 
Park on the v hiteness of his skin and the prominence 
of his nose, both of which they considered as '^unsightly 
and unnatural conformations.” He in return praised 
the glossy jet of their skins and the lovely depression of 
their noses ; this they said was honey-mouth,” never- 
theless they gave him food. The African Moors, also,. 
knitted their brows and seemed to shudder ” at the 
Avhiteness of his skin. On the eastern coast, the negro 
boys when they saw Burton, cried out ‘^Look at the 
white man; does he not look like a Avhite ape?” On 
the Avestern coast, as Mr. WinAvood Eeade informs me, 
the negroes admire a very black skin more than one of 
a lighter tint. But their horror of Avhiteness may be 
partly attributed, according to this same traveller, to 
the belief held by most negroes that demons and spirits 
are Avhite. 
The Banyai of the more southern part of the continent 
are negroes, but a great many of them are of a light 
coffee-and-milk colour, and, indeed, this colour is con- 
sidered handsome throughout the whole country ; ” so 
that here Ave have a different standard of taste. With the 
‘The Anthropological Keview,’ November, 1864:, p. 237. For 
additional references, see Waitz, ‘ Introduct. to Anthropology,’ Eng* 
translat. 1863, vol. i. p. 105. 
