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with hair, about two inches long and of a flaxen 
colour. At six years of age, hair began to grow 
on the body generally, and first on the fore¬ 
head. He distinctly stated that he did not attain 
the age of puberty till he was twenty years old. 
Shwe-maong was married about eight years 
ago, or when twenty -two years of age; the King, 
as he stated himself, having made him a present 
of a wife. By this woman he has had four child¬ 
ren, all girls ; the eldest died when three years 
of age, and the second when eleven months old. 
There was nothing remarkable in their form. 
The mother, rather a pretty Burman woman, 
came to us to-day along with her third and 
fourth child. The eldest, about five years of 
age, was a striking likeness of her mother, and 
a pretty interesting child, without any mal-con¬ 
formation whatever, or indeed any thing to dis¬ 
tinguish her from an ordinary healthy child. 
She began to teeth at the usual period, and had 
all her infantine teeth complete at two years of 
age. The youngest child was about two years 
and a half old, a very stout fine infant: she was 
born with hair within the anterior portion of the 
ear. At six months old it began to appear all 
over the ears, and at one year old on different 
parts of the body. This hair was of a light flax¬ 
en colour, and of a fine silky texture. When 
