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Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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but short, and broad at the pi^ysicainostrils; the mouths are wide, but well-formed ; and the lips characters,rarely show a tendency to fulness. The neck is short, the craniumrounded, the cheek-bones low. . . . The eyebrows are full, and forma straight line nearly across the face. The eyes are large, tolerably deeplyset, and very beautiful, the colour a rich liquid brown, the expressionsingularly soft, and the eyelashes long, silky, and abundant. The skinhas the Italian olive tint, but in most cases is thin, and light enough toshow the changes of colour in the cheeks. The teeth are small, regular. I 400 THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. and very white ; the incisors and eye-teeth are not disproportionatelylarge, as is usually the case among the Japanese; there is no tendency toprognathism. The features, expression, and aspect are European ratherthan Asiatic, Other accounts describe the forehead as low, the brow ridges prom-inent, the nose thick and rounded at the end, the eyes not oblique, and
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AINOS 01 JAPAN. (Jti official state dress when visiting the Japanese Governor of Hohodaiti, Tezo, 1867.) (From a i^holO(p-aph lent by De. Beddok, P.R.S.) intensely black. Tlie abundant development of the hair and beard istheir most conspicuous character. It is black, coarse, straight, andsl^f^ggj) that on the head worn long, down to the shoulders and minglingwith the beard. The women are much inferior in looks to the men, THE JAPANESE. 401 ageing soon, owing to the hard work they have to do, and to their heavytattooing. This is done on the forearm, lips, and cheeks, of an uglyhght bhie hue. Miss Bird was of opinion tliat their ugUness ^^^was due to art and dirt. They are seldom more than five feet womensand half an inch high, but are well formed and lithe, withsmall feet and hands, well-arched insteps, well-developed busts, and a firmgait. They have superb teeth, and use them liberally in smiling. MissBird says, that one girl whom she saw, who had not been tattooed, wasthe most beauti

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