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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

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177.] 1308 (return) [ See Lavater, edit. of 1820, vol. iv. p. 303.] 1309 (return) [ Burgess, ibid. pp. 114, 122. Moreau in Lavater, ibid. vol. iv. p. 293.] 1310 (return) [ Letters from Egypt, 1865, p. 66. Lady Gordon is mistaken when she says Malays and Mulattoes never blush.] 1311 (return) [ Capt. Osborn ( Quedah, p. 199), in speaking of a Malay, whom he reproached for cruelty, says he was glad to see that the man blushed.] 1312 (return) [ J. R. Forster, Observations during a Voyage round the World, 4to, 1778, p. 229. Waitz gives ( Introduction to Anthropology, Eng. translat. 1863, vol. i. p. 135) references for other islands in the Pacific. See, also, Dampier On the Blushing of the Tunquinese (vol. ii. p. 40); but I have not consulted this work. Waitz quotes Bergmann, that the Kalmucks do not blush, but this may be doubted after what we have seen with respect to the Chinese. He also quotes Roth, who denies that the Abyssinians are capable of blushing. Unfortunately, Capt. Speedy, who lived so long with the Abyssinians, has not answered my inquiry on this head. Lastly, I must add that the Rajah Brooke has never observed the least sign of a blush with the Dyaks of Borneo; on the contrary under circumstances which would excite a blush in us, they assert that they feel the blood drawn from their faces. ] 1313 (return) [ Transact. of the Ethnological Soc. 1870, vol. ii. p. 16.] 1314 (return) [ Humboldt, Personal Narrative, Eng. translat. vol. iii. p. 229.] 1315 (return) [ Quoted by Prichard, Phys. Hist. of Mankind, 4th edit 1851, vol. i. p. 271.] 1316 (return) [ See, on this head, Burgess, ibid. p. 32. Also Waitz, Introduction to Anthropology, Eng. edit. vol. i. p. 139. Moreau gives a detailed account ( Lavater, 1820, tom. iv. p. 302) of the blushing 271
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