The men of most Australian tribes, and in many cases the women, wear no clothes except in cold weather, when they throw a kangaroo skin about their shoulders. “They are as innocent of shame,” says Mr. Palmer, “as the animals of the forests.”[1119] In Tasmania, too, the aborigines were usually naked, or, when they covered themselves, they showed that the idea of decency had not occurred to them.[1120] The same is said of some tribes in Borneo[1121] and Sumatra,[1122] the people of Jarai, bordering upon the empire of Siam,[1123] the inhabitants of the Louisiade Archipelago,[1124] Solomon Islands,[1125] Penrhyn Island, and some other islands of the South Sea;[1126] whilst, in others, only the men generally go naked.[1127] The Papuans of the south-west coast of New Guinea “glory in their nudeness, and consider clothing to be fit only for women.”[1128] In one part of Timor, on the other hand,[1129] as also in a tribe of the Andamanese,[1130] it is the women that are devoid of any kind of covering. Passing to Africa, we meet with instances of the same kind. Concerning the Wa-taveita of the eastern equatorial region, Mr. Johnston remarks that “both sexes have little notion or conception of decency, the men especially seeming to be unconscious of any impropriety in nakedness. What clothing they have is worn as an adornment or for warmth at night and early morning.”[1131] The Wa-chaga and Mashukulumbe generally go about naked,[1132] and so do the Bushmans, except when they use a piece of skin barely sufficient to cover the back.[1133] Again, among the Bubis of Fernando Po[1134] and the natives of Balonda[1135] and Loango,[1136] the women have no sort of covering, whilst, among the Negroes of the Egyptian Soudan,[1137] the Baris,[1138] Shilluk,[1139] Dinka,[1140] Watuta,[1141] and Masai,[1142] this is the case with the men only. Apud Masaios membrum virile celare turpe existimatur, honestum expromere, atque etiam ostentare.[1143] In Lancerote also, according to Bontier and Le Verrier, the men used no covering; and, in Teneriffe, “the inhabitants went naked, except some few who wore goatskins.”[1144] It might perhaps be supposed that the feeling of modesty, though not originally innate, appeared later on, at a certain stage of civilization, either spontaneously or from some unknown cause. This seems, indeed, to be the opinion of Professor Wundt, who says that man began to cover himself from decency.[1145] But let us see what covering savages often use.