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Girl from Migiul: The beauty of the island

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Title: Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868-
Subjects: Women
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Cassell and Company, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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-2i>)USS. MAN AND WOMAN (SLAVES) OF THE PIMLINGAI TRIBE, UAP (CAROLINES). Showing the dark aboriginal type. admirably fitted for the tender offices oflove ; and, setting aside our innate pre-judices to certain complexions, their personalcharms are of a very superior order. But though the gallant Captain, whenattempting to describe the fair Micronesiantype, laments his lack of descriptive powers,and prays the reader to accept the plainmatter-of-fact observations of a seaman, hewaxes eloquent:— A pair of long jet-black silken eye-lashes,with more than what we should consider ausual curve, are merely the drapery orwindow-curtain under which the soul peepsout from her palace through the crystalmedium of a pair of bright penetrating blackeyes. The women are of about the samesize as ours, delicately formed, with veryslender waists and exquisitely mouldedbusts. Their hands and feet are not larger
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/.- //■. //. i UVIK^S. GIRL FROM MIGIUL: THE BEAUTY OF THE ISLAND. (5ee p. 124.) 124 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS than those of our children at twelve yearsof age, and I have frequently with bothhands spanned the waists of girls of eighteento twenty years old. They have smallheads, high foreheads, large black eyes, fullplump cheeks, handsomely formed noses,small mouths, and a beautiful set of teeth,which adds a thousand charms to eachbewitching smile. Their ears are small,

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