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tieir vanity. Burcliell 47 gives an amusing account of 
a Bush-woman, who used so much grease, red ochre, 
and shining powder, “ as would have ruined any but a 
very rich husband.” She displayed also “much" vanity 
and too evident a consciousness of her superiority.” 
Mr. Winwood Keade informs me that the negroes of 
the West Coast often discuss the beauty of their women, 
borne competent observers have attributed the fearfully 
common practice of infanticide partly to the desire felt 
by the women to retain their good looks . 48 In several 
regions the women wear charms and love-philters to 
gam the affections of the men; and Mr. Brown enume- 
rates four plants used for this purpose by the women of 
.North-Western America . 49 
Hearne , 50 who lived many years with the American 
Indians, and who was an excellent observer, says, in 
speaking of the women, “Ask 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 
aCr ° SS eac]l cheek > a Io ' v 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 0 f the Chinese empire, says “those women are 
„ P , T f! who have Mandschii form ; that is to say, 
a broad face, high cheek-bones, very broad noses, and 
enormous ears 51 and Vogt remarks that the obliquity 
of the eye, which is proper to the Chinese and Japanese, 
^ ‘ Tm 7 el * “ Africa,’ 1824, vol. i. p. 414. 
186S S n V f rlail 1 il,er CkS Aussterben der Naturvolker,’ 
« n u ’ /if 80 Azam > ‘ Voyages,’ Ac. tom. ii. p. IK;. 
On the vegetable productions used by the North-Western Ameri- 
can Indians, 1 Pharmaceutical Journal ’ vol x 
" ‘ A ; r “ U T° A * Wales Fort,’' Svo. edit. 1796, p. 89. 
^ P ™ h r ard ’ ‘toys. Hist, of Mankind,’ 3rd edit vol. iv. 
184:4, p. 519; Vogt, ‘Lectures on Man,’ Eng. translat p 129 On the 
185“ 0 p 107 0hmeSe °“ thB Cingillese ’ E ‘ Tennent, ‘ Ceylon,’ vol. ii. 
