Chap. XIX. 
BEAUTY. 
347 
Kafirs, who differ much from negroes, the skin, except 
“ among the tribes near Delagoa Bay, is not usually 
black, the prevailing colour being a mixture of black 
and red, the most common shade being chocolate. 
Dark complexions, as being most common are natu- 
rally held in the highest esteem. To be told that he 
is light-coloured, or like a white man, would be deemed 
a very poor compliment by a Kafir. I have heard of 
one unfortunate man who was so very fair that no 
'' girl would marry him.” One of the titles of tho 
Zulu king is You who are black.” Mr. Galton, in 
speaking to me about the natives of S. Africa, remarked 
that their ideas of beauty seem very different from 
ours ; for in one tribe two slim, slight, and pretty girls 
were not admired by the natives. 
Turning to other quarters of the world; in Java, a 
yellow, not a white girl, is considered, according to 
Madame Pfeifler, a beauty. A man of Cochin-China 
spoke wdth contempt of the wife of the English 
Ambassador, that she had white teeth like a dog, 
and a rosy colour like that of potato-flowers.” We 
have seen that the Chinese dislike our white skin, and 
that the N. Americans admire ^^a tawny hide.” In 
S. America, the Yura-caras, who inhabit the wooded,, 
damp slopes of the eastern Cordillera, are remarkably 
pale-coloured, as their name in their own language 
expresses ; nevertheless they consider European women 
as very inferior to their own.^^ 
‘Mmigo Park’s Travels in Africa,’ 4to. 1816, p. 53, 131. Burton’s^ 
statement is quoted by Schaaifhausen, ^ Archiv fiir Anthropolog.’ 1866, 
s. 163. On the Banyai, Livingstone, ‘ Travels,’ p. 64. On the Kafirs, 
the Eev. J. Shooter, ‘The Kafirs of Natal and the Zulu Country,’ 1857 
p. 1. 
For the Javanese and Cochin-Chinese,’ see Waitz, ‘ Iritroduct. to 
Anthropology,’ Eng. translat. vol. i. p. 305, On the Yura-caras, A, 
