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
of a Madagascar negress-slave when forced by her brutal master to
exhibit her naked bosom.]
1317 (return) [ Quoted by Prichard, Phys. Hist. of Mankind, 4th edit.
1851, vol. i. p. 225.]
1318 (return) [ Burgess, ibid. p. 31. On mulattoes blushing, see p. 33.
I have received similar accounts with respect to, mulattoes.]
1319 (return) [ Barrington also says that the Australians of New South
Wales blush, as quoted by Waitz, ibid. p. 135.]
1320 (return) [ Mr. Wedgwood says (Dict. of English Etymology, vol.
iii. 1865, p. 155) that the word shame “may well originate in the idea
of shade or concealment, and may be illustrated by the Low German
_scheme_, shade or shadow.” Gratiolet (De la Phys. pp. 357-362) has a
good discussion on the gestures accompanying shame; but some of his
remarks seem to me rather fanciful. See, also, Burgess (ibid. pp. 69,
134) on the same subject.]
1321 (return) [ Burgess, ibid. pp. 181, 182. Boerhaave also noticed (as
quoted by Gratiolet, ibid. p. 361) the tendency to the secretion of
tears during intense blushing. Mr. Bulmer, as we have seen, speaks of
the “watery eyes” of the children of the Australian aborigines when
ashamed.]
1322 (return) [ See also Dr. J. Crichton Browne’s Memoir on this
subject in the ‘West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Report,’ 1871, pp.
95-98.]
1323 (return) [ In a discussion on so-called animal magnetism in ‘Table
Talk,’ vol. i.]
1324 (return) [ Ibid. p. 40.]
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