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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 Sornal men “ are 
“ said to choose their wives by ranging them in a line, 
“ and by picking her out who projects farthest a ter go, 
“Nothing can be more hateful to a negro than the 
“ opposite form.” 64 
With respect to colour, the negroes rallied Mungo 
Park on the whiteness 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 
whiteness ot his skin. On the eastern coast, the negro 
boys when they saw Eurton, cried out “Look at the 
“ white man ; does he not look like a white ape ?” On 
the western coast, as Mr. Winwood lleade informs me, 
the negroes admire a very black skin more than one of 
a lighter tint. But their horror of whiteness may be 
partly attributed, according to this same traveller, to 
the belief held by most negroes that demons and spirits 
are white. 
The Banyai of the more southern part of the continent 
are negroes, but “ a great many of them are of a light 
“ coflee-and-milk colour, and, indeed, this colour is con- 
“ sidered handsome throughout the whole country ; ” so 
that here we have a different standard of taste. With the 
54 ‘The Anthropological Review,’ November, 1864, p. 237. F° r 
additional references, see Waitz, ‘Introduct. to Anthropology,’ Eng* 
translat. 1863, vol. i. p. 1 05. 
