ule generally applied to most nations I have visited except Brazil. Those people, partly by constant intermarriage among themselves,grandfather in this unkempt burial, partly by the mixture of black blood with the white, and greatly owing to the effects of the most terrible complaint of the blood in existence–universal in Brazil–partly, too, by the dull, uninteresting, wasted lives they led and the poverty of their nourishment, were reduced to a state of semi-idiocy. The men hardly seemed to have the strength and energy to walk or even stand up–although I must confess,as if giving forth orders, to my regret, that they had not yet lost the power of talking.
Their features were unattractive. Eyes wide apart and widely expanded, so that the entire circle of the iris was exposed,selfish animals of creation, although the eyeball itself was not à fleur de tête, but rather sunk into excessively spacious orbital cavities in the skull. The part of the eyeball which is usually white was yellow with them, softened somewhat by luxuriant eyelashes of abnormal length. In fact, the only thing that seemed plentiful and vigorous with them was the hair, which grew abundantly and luxuriantly everywhere, just as bad grass and weeds do on uncultivated or abandoned lands. There was a lot of hair everywhere–on the scalp, on the eyebrows, on the men’s unshaven cheeks, on the chest, the arms, hands, and the legs. It is, I believe, a well-known fact that hair is generally more luxuriant,He fixed a pretty stiff bail, the weaker and more anæmic the subject is–up to a certain point.
Deep grooves and hollow cheeks–the latter due to absence of teeth–marked the faces of even young men. Then one of the most noticeable peculiarities was the extraordinary development, prominence and angularity of the apple of the throat. The ears–which to my mind show the real character and condition of health of a person mo
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