The Descent of Man

enormous ears"(57. Quoted by Prichard, 'Physical
History of Mankind,' 3rd ed. vol. iv. 1844, p.
519; Vogt, 'Lectures on Man,' Eng. translat. p.
129. On the opinion of the Chinese on the Cingalese,
E. Tennent, 'Ceylon,' 1859, vol. ii. p.
107.); and Vogt remarks that the obliquity of
the eye, which is proper to the Chinese and
Japanese, is exaggerated in their pictures for the
purpose, as it "seems, of exhibiting its beauty,
as contrasted with the eye of the red-haired
barbarians." It is well known, as Huc repeatedly
remarks, that the Chinese of the interior
think Europeans hideous, with their white
skins and prominent noses. The nose is far from
being too prominent, according to our ideas, in
the natives of Ceylon; yet "the Chinese in the
seventh century, accustomed to the flat features
of the Mongol races, were surprised at the
prominent noses of the Cingalese; and Thsang
described them as having 'the beak of a bird,
with the body of a man.'"