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105.) With respect to colour, the negroes rallied Mungo Park on the whiteness of his skin and the prominence of his nose, both of which they considered as "unsightly and unnatural download ebooks conformations." He in return praised the glossy jet of their download ebooks skins and the lovely depression of their noses; this they said was "honeymouth," nevertheless they gave him food.

The African Moors, download ebooks also, "knitted their brows and seemed to shudder" at the whiteness of his skin.

On the eastern coast, the negro boys download ebooks when they saw Burton, cried out, "Look at the white man; download ebooks does he not look like a white ape?" On the western download ebooks coast, as Mr.

Winwood Reade informs me, the negroes admire a very black skin more than one of a lighter tint. But their horror google maps download of whiteness may be attributed, according to this same traveller, partly to the belief held by most negroes that demons and spirits are white, and partly to their thinking it a sign of ill-health. The Banyai of the more download ebooks southern part of the continent are negroes, but "a great many of them are of a light coffee-and-milk colour, and, indeed, this colour is considered handsome throughout the whole country"; so that download ebooks here we have a different standard of taste. With the Kaffirs, who differ much from negroes, "the skin, except among the tribes near Delagoa Bay, is not usually black, the prevailing colour being a mixture of black and red, the most common download ebooks shade being chocolate. Dark complexions, as being most common, are naturally download ebooks held in the highest esteem. To be told that he is light- coloured, or like a white man, would be deemed a very poor compliment by a Kaffir. I have heard download ebooks of one unfortunate man who was so very fair that no girl would marry him." One of the titles of the Zulu king is, "You who are black." (61. Burton's statement download ebooks is quoted by Schaaffhausen, 'Archiv. Shooter, 'The Kafirs of Natal and the Zulu Country,' 1857, p.

Africa, download free ebooks remarked that their ideas of beauty seem very different from ours; for in one tribe two slim, slight, and pretty girls were not admired by the natives.

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