C HAP. 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 lighhcoloured, 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 the 
Zulu king is “You who are black .” 65 Mr. Galton, in 
s peaking to me about the natives of S. Africa, remarked 
that their ideas of beauty seem very different from 
°urs ; for in one tribe two slim, slight, and pretty girls 
"'ere not admired by the natives. 
Turning to other quarters of the world ; in J ava, a 
yellow, not a white girl, is considered, according to 
■Kadame Pfeiffer, a beauty. A man of Cochin-China 
t! spoke with 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 
bave seen that the Chinese dislike our white skin, and 
that the N. Americans admire “a tawny hide.” In 
K 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 
° x presses ; nevertheless they consider European women 
as very inferior to their own . 56 
** ‘ Mungo Park’s Travels in Africa," 4to. 1816, p. 53, 131. Burton’s 
statement is quoted by Schaaffhausen, ‘ Arcliiv fiir Antliropolog.’ 1866, 
s - 163. On tire Banyai, Livingstone, ‘ Travels,’ p. 64. On the Kafirs, 
the Rev. J. Shooter, 1 The Kafirs of Natal and the Zulu Country,’ 1857 
P. 1. 
50 For the Javanese and Coclrin-Chinese,’ see "Waltz, ‘ Introduct. to 
•‘Anthropology,' Kng. trauslat. vol. i. p. 305. On the Yura-caras, A. 
