Ainos (15. Quatrefages, Revue des Cours Scientifiques, Aug. 29, 1868,
p. 630; Vogt, Lectures on Man, Eng. trans. p. 127.), who inhabit the
northernmost islands of the Japan Archipelago, are the hairiest men in
the world. With negroes the beard is scanty or wanting, and they rarely
have whiskers; in both sexes the body is frequently almost destitute of
fine down. (16. On the beards of negroes, Vogt, Lectures, etc. p.
127; Waitz, Introduct. to Anthropology, Engl. translat. 1863, vol. i.
p. 96. It is remarkable that in the United States ( Investigations in
Military and Anthropological Statistics of American Soldiers, 1869, p.
569) the pure negroes and their crossed offspring seem to have bodies
almost as hairy as Europeans.) On the other hand, the Papuans of the
Malay Archipelago, who are nearly as black as negroes, possess
well-developed beards. (17. Wallace, The Malay Arch. vol. ii. 1869,
p. 178.) In the Pacific Ocean the inhabitants of the Fiji Archipelago
have large bushy beards, whilst those of the not distant archipelagoes
of Tonga and Samoa are beardless; but these men belong to distinct
races. In the Ellice group all the inhabitants belong to the same race;
yet on one island alone, namely Nunemaya, the men have splendid
beards ; whilst on the other islands they have, as a rule, a dozen
straggling hairs for a beard. (18. Dr. J. Barnard Davis on Oceanic
Races, in Anthropological Review, April 1870, pp. 185, 191.)
Throughout the great American continent the men may be said to be
beardless; but in almost all the tribes a few short hairs are apt to
appear on the face, especially in old age. With the tribes of North
America, Catlin estimates that eighteen out of twenty men are
completely destitute by nature of a beard; but occasionally there may
be seen a man, who has neglected to pluck out the hairs at puberty,
with a soft beard an inch or two in length. The Guaranys of Paraguay
differ from all the surrounding tribes in having a small beard, and
even some hair on the body, but no whiskers. (19. Catlin, North
American Indians, 3rd. ed. 1842, vol. ii. p. 227. On the Guaranys, see
Azara, Voyages dans l Amerique Merid. tom. ii. 1809, p. 85; also
Rengger, Saugethiere von Paraguay, s. 3.) I am informed by Mr. D.
Forbes, who particularly attended to this point, that the Aymaras and
Quichuas of the Cordillera are remarkably hairless, yet in old age a
few straggling hairs occasionally appear on the chin. The men of these
two tribes have very little hair on the various parts of the body where
hair grows abundantly in Europeans, and the women have none on the
corresponding parts. The hair on the head, however, attains an
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