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Title: New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine."
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875
Subjects: Physiognomy Phrenology
Publisher: New York : Fowler & Wells
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fig, 598.—Natives op E iij.it:- Saxto. one of the group of islands generally known as the NewHt^brides. We have no skulls or cranial drawino-s of these 4 71 NATIONAL TYPES people, and no information that will help us nuitli in arrivingat a correct conclusion in regaid to tlieir ethnological reLi-tions. Their physiognomy reminds us of the Sandwich island-
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Fig. 599.—Harawattky.ers, but indicates a lower degree of development and anapproach to the African type. Pedro Fernandes de Quiros, a Portuguese navigator in theservice of Spain, who discovered the island of Espiritu Santoin 1605, has left an admirable picture of that fertile and de-lightful spot. He says: The rivers Jordan and Salvador OTHER POLYNESIANS 475 give no small beauty to their shores, for they are full of odor-iferous flowers ai)d plants. Pleasant and agreeable grovesfront the sea in every j^art: we mounted to the tops of moun-tains and perceived fertile valleys and rivers winding amonggreen meadows. The whole is a country which, withoutdoubt, has the advantage over those of America, and the bestof the European will be well if it is equal. It is plenteous ofvarious and delicious fruits, potatoes, yams, plantains, oran-ges, limes, sweet basil, nutmegs, and ebony, all of which, with-out the help of sickle, plow, or other artifice, it yields in everyseason. There are also c

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