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which 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 well 
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. Yeitcli states that the 
Japanese ladies “all objected to our whiskers, consider- 
‘ »ig 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 
hice, and have a saying that “ There is no woman lor a 
“ hairy man .” 53 
On the other hand, bearded races admire and greatly 
v alue their beards ; among the Anglo-Saxons every part 
°f the body, according to their laws, had a recognised 
^alue ; “the loss of the beard being estimated at twenty 
'shillings, while the breaking of a thigh was fixed at 
"'only twelve .” 53 In the East men swear solemnly bv 
their beards. We have seen that Chinsurdi, the chief 
01 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- 
Ce ut archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are “ beardless, 
’ a nd abhor a rough chin.” In one island alone of the 
kJlice group “the men are heavily bearded, and not a 
** httle proud thereof .” 60 
18 On the Siamese, Prichard, ibid. vol. iv. p. 533. On the Japanese, 
<-'tch in ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ 18(10, p. 1104. On the New Zealanders 
lantegazza, ‘ Via.ggi e Studi,’ 1867, p. 526. For the other nations 
Mentioned, see references in Lawrence, ‘Lectures on Physiology, ’ &c. 
182 2, p.272. 
11 Lubbock, ‘ Origin of Civilisation.’ 1S70, p. 321. 
. 0 hr. Barnard Davis quotes Mr. Pritchard and others for these facts 
ltl regard to the Polynesians, in ‘ Anthropological Iteview,’ April, 1870, 
P- 185, 191. 
