ACROSS UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA 
The feet of the Bororos of the Malay type were 
generally stumpy, but this was not so with the higher 
Papuan types, who, on the contrary, had abnormally 
long toes and elongated feet, rather flattened. The 
Bororos used their toes almost as much as their fingers, 
and showed great dexterity in picking up things, or in 
spinning twine, when their toes did quite as much work 
as their fingers. 
The colour of the iris of the Bororo eye was brown, 
with considerable discoloration around its outer periph¬ 
ery, and especially in the upper part, where it was 
covered by the lid. The eyes were generally kept half 
closed. 
The anatomical detail of the body was perfectly 
balanced. The arms were powerful, but with fine, well- 
formed wrists, exquisitely chiselled, as were all the 
attachments of their limbs. They had quite graceful 
hands, long-fingered — in more ways than one — and 
wonderfully well-shaped, elongated, convex-faced nails, 
which would arouse the envy of many a lady of Western 
countries. The webbing between the fingers was infini¬ 
tesimal, as with most Malay races. Great refinement of 
race was also to be noticed in the shape of their legs, which 
were marvellously modelled, without an ounce of extra 
flesh, and with small ankles. 
The Bororos divided themselves into two separate 
families: the Bororo Cerados and the Bororo Tugaregghi. 
The first descended from Baccoron; the second claimed 
descent from Ittibori. Baccoron lived where the sun set, 
in the west; Ittibori dwelt in the east. 
I heard a strange legend in connection with their 
origin, in which they seemed proud of their descent from 
the jaguar, which to them represented the type of virility. 
A male jaguar, they said, had married a Bororo woman. 
A sensible custom existed among the Bororos, as 
among the Tuaregs of the Sahara desert in Africa. The 
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