ACROSS UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA 
unshaven cheeks, on the chest, the arms, hands, and the 
legs. It is, I believe, a well-known fact that hair is 
generally more luxuriant, the weaker and more anaemic 
the subject is — up to a certain point. 
Deep grooves and hollow cheeks, the latter due to 
absence of teeth, marked the faces of even young men. 
One of the most noticeable peculiarities was the extraordi¬ 
nary development, prominence, and angularity of the 
apple of the throat. The ears, which to my mind show the 
real character and condition of health of a person more 
than any other visible part of his or her anatomy, were 
large and prominent, occasionally well-formed, but lack¬ 
ing colour and the delightful, well-chiselled, vigorous 
curves of healthy, normal, intelligent people. The hands 
and feet were generally small and well-shaped, in wonder¬ 
ful condition — though not necessarily clean — owing to 
the inborn reluctance which all the people of Brazil have 
for manual labour. 
It has always been my experience that, generally 
speaking, malformed people possess distorted brains, 
which does not mean at all that the brain of a malformed 
person may not perhaps develop in a marvellous manner 
in one particular direction. What I maintain is that, with 
few possible exceptions, the brains of malformed people 
are seldom perfectly balanced. As for these particular 
subjects, it did not take a deep student of human nature 
to set down the entire crowd of them as visionaries, most 
fantastically inclined, in which direction, having no 
restraint whatever, they ran absolutely amuck. 
Yet there was something very charming about the 
people of the interior of Brazil, after they had overcome 
their first suspicion of strangers and their own shyness. 
They seemed imbued with the idea that everybody came 
there specially to do them harm. They lived in a constant 
state of fear and trembling, even of their own relations 
and friends. They all went about armed to the teeth, and 
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