The Bodies,
And Specially The Limbs, Of Many Are Covered With Short Bristly
Hair.
I have seen two boys whose backs are covered with fur as
fine and soft as that of a cat.
The heads and faces are very
striking. The foreheads are very high, broad, and prominent, and
at first sight give one the impression of an unusual capacity for
intellectual development; the ears are small and set low; the noses
are straight but short, and broad at the nostrils; the mouths are
wide but well formed; and the lips rarely show a tendency to
fulness. The neck is short, the cranium rounded, the cheek-bones
low, and the lower part of the face is small as compared with the
upper, the peculiarity called a "jowl" being unknown. The eyebrows
are full, and form a straight line nearly across the face. The
eyes are large, tolerably deeply set, and very beautiful, the
colour a rich liquid brown, the expression singularly soft, and the
eyelashes long, silky, and abundant. The skin has the Italian
olive tint, but in most cases is thin, and light enough to show the
changes of colour in the cheek. The teeth are small, regular, and
very white; the incisors and "eye teeth" are not disproportionately
large, as is usually the case among the Japanese; there is no
tendency towards prognathism; and the fold of integument which
conceals the upper eyelids of the Japanese is never to be met with.
The features, expression, and aspect, are European rather than
Asiatic.
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