The Descent of Man

lay Arch.' vol. ii. 1869, p. 178.) In the Pacific
Ocean the inhabitants of the Fiji Archipelago
have large bushy beards, whilst those of the not
distant archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are
beardless; but these men belong to distinct races.
In the Ellice group all the inhabitants belong
to the same race; yet on one island alone,
namely Nunemaya, "the men have splendid
beards"; whilst on the other islands "they have,
as a rule, a dozen straggling hairs for a beard."
(18. Dr. J. Barnard Davis on Oceanic Races, in
'Anthropological Review,' April 1870, pp. 185,
191.)
Throughout the great American continent the
men may be said to be beardless; but in almost
all the tribes a few short hairs are apt to appear
on the face, especially in old age. With the tribes
of North America, Catlin estimates that
eighteen out of twenty men are completely destitute
by nature of a beard; but occasionally
there may be seen a man, who has neglected to