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and other Animals. 
These people lived in the midst of a cocoa-nut grove, and, like 
the Singalese in general, led an easy and indolent life, according 
to our notions of activity, and subsisted chiefly on rice, fruit 
and vegetables. 
The following morning, about the same time, and when the 
temperature of the air was the same, I tried the temperature of 
four albinoes : 
No. 
Sex. 
Age. 
Temp, under Tongue. 
1 . 
F. 
n 
u 
ior.5 
2. 
12 
101.5 
3. 
23 
101.75 
4. 
M. 
27 
101 
These albinoes were the children of black parents ; the two first 
were sisters, and they had brothers and sisters of the colour of 
their parents. They were all well made, active, and in good 
health *. 
On the 12th of October, between six and seven o’clock in the 
morning, while the air was between 77° and 79°, I tried the 
temperature of a number of children at the Orphan School in 
the neighbourhood of Colombo, some half-caste, of Singalese 
mothers by English soldiers, others white, of English parents : 
HALF-CASTE. 
No. 
Sex. 
Age. 
Temp under 
Tongue. 
Temp in 
Axilla. 
1 . 
F. 
12 
100°.5 
98°.5 
2. 
14 
101 
3. 
17 
100 
4. 
M. 
14 
102 
100 
5. 
10 
101.5 
99.5 
6. 
... 
14 
100 
99 
7. 
10 
100 
99 
1 . 
F. 
WHITE 
9 
CHILDREN. 
101 
99.5 
2. 
6 
101 
98 
3. 
9 
101 
98.5 
4. 
12 
102 
100 
5. 
M. 
8 
102 
100 
* The young albino, twelve years of age, in England, and certainly in 
Norway, would not be considered peculiar ; for her eyes were light blue, and 
not particularly weak, her hair of the colour that usually accompanies such 
eyes, and her complexion fresh, and rather rosy. She had considerable pre- 
tensions to beauty, and she was not without admirers amongst her country- 
men. It is easy to conceive, that an accidental variety of the kind might pro- 
pagate, and that the white race of mankind is sprung from such an accidental 
variety. The Hindus are of this opinion, and there is a tradition or story 
amongst them, in which this origin is assigned us. 
