Chap. XIX. 
BEAUTY. 
319 
Avhicli are almost completely destitute of a beard dislike 
hairs on the face and body, and take pains to eradicate 
them. The Kalmucks are beardless, and they are Avell 
known, like the Americans, to pluck out all straggling 
hairs; and so it is with the Polynesians, some of the 
Malays, and the Siamese. Mr. Veitch states that the 
Japanese ladies ‘^all objected to our whiskers, consider- 
ing them very ugly, and told us to cut them off, and 
be like Japanese men.” The New Zealanders are 
beardless; they carefully pluck out the hairs on the 
face, and have a saying that There is no wuman for a 
hairy man.”^® 
On the other hand, bearded races admire and greatly 
value their beards ; among the Anglo-Saxons every part 
of the body, according to their laws, had a recognised 
value ; ^Hhe loss of the beard being estimated at twenty 
shillings, while the breaking of a thigh was fixed at 
only twelve.” In the East men swear solemnly by 
their beards. We have seen that Chinsurdi, the chief 
of the Makalolo in Africa, evidently thought that 
beards were a great ornament. With the Fijians in 
the Pacific the beard is profuse and bushy, and is his 
greatest pride;” whilst the inhabitants of the adja- 
cent archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are ‘‘beardless, 
“ and abhor a rough chin.” In one island alone of the 
Ellice group “ the men are heavily bearded, and not a 
“ little proud thereof.” 
On the Siamese, Prichard, ibid. vol. iv. p. 533. On the Japanese, 
Veitch in ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ 1860, p. 1104. On the New Zealandei s 
Mantegazza, ‘Viaggi e Studi,’ 1867, p. 526. For the other nations 
mentioned, see references in Lawrence, ‘ Lectures on Physiology,’ &c. 
1822, p. 272. 
Lubbock, ‘Origin of Civilisation,’ 1870, p. 321. 
Dr. Barnard Davis quotes Mr. Pritchard and others for these facts 
in regard to the Polynesians, in ‘ Anthropological Review,’ April, 1870, 
.185, 191. 
