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rubbing themselves with oil or fat. At the same time they perspire easily 
and freely, and the pores are certainly larger than in Europeans. The most 
offensive negro smell would appear to be connected with the glands under 
the arm-pits, which exude at times a secretion often confounded with sweat, 
but which would appear to me to be of a different character and more oily 
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in composition. I cannot assert that this exudation is specially connected 
with the sexual functions, or with any particular state of mind or body. 
Perhaps when the negro is perspiring heavily, he is more odorous than at 
other times. Yet this trait varies a good deal in individuals, and on the 
whole (though not altogether) is more or less prominent according to the 
degree of cleanliness observed by frequent baths. In the clothed negro it is 
sometimes offensive to an appalling degree, rendering it well nigh impossible 
