“the Indian woman has a very masculine air, extending indeed more or less to her whole bearing; for even her features have rarely the feminine delicacy of higher womanhood.  In the Negro, on the contrary, the narrowness of chest and shoulder characteristic of the woman is almost as marked in the man; indeed, it may well be said, that, while the Indian female is remarkable for her masculine build, the negro male is equally so for his feminine aspect.”

In the Jesuit Relations there are repeated references to the difficulty of distinguishing squaws from male Indians except by certain articles of dress.  Burton writes of the Sioux (C.O.S., 59) that “the unaccustomed eye often hesitates between the sexes.”  In Schoolcraft (V., 274) we are told concerning the Creek women that “being condemned to perform all the hard labor, they are universally masculine in appearance, without one soft blandishment to render them desirable or lovely.”  Nor is there anything alluringly feminine in the disposition which, as all observers agree, makes Indian women more cruel in torture than the most pitiless men.  Equally decisive is the testimony regarding the similarity of the sexes, physical and mental, in the islands of the Pacific.  Hawkesworth (II., 446) found the women of New Zealand so lacking in feminine delicacy that it was difficult to distinguish them from the men, except by their voices.  Captain Cook (II., 246) observed in Fiji differences in form between men and females, but little difference in features; and of the Hawaiians he wrote that with few exceptions they

“have little claim to those peculiarities that distinguish the sex in other countries.  There is, indeed, a more remarkable equality in the size, color, and figure of both sexes, than in most places I have visited.”

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS

A most important inference may be deduced from these facts.  A man does not, normally, fall in love with a man.  He falls in love with a woman, because she is a woman.  Now when, as in the cases cited, the men and women differ only in regard to the coarsest anatomical peculiarities known as the primary sexual qualities, it is obvious that their “love” also can consist only of such coarse feelings and longings as these primary qualities can inspire.  In other words they can know the great passion only on its sensual side.  Love, to them, is not a sentiment but an appetite, or at best an instinct for the propagation of the species.

Of the secondary sexual qualities—­those not absolutely necessary for the maintenance of the species—­the first to appear prominently in women is fat; and as soon as it does appear, it is made a ground of individual preference.  Brough Smyth tells us that in Australia a fat woman is never safe from being stolen, no matter how old and ugly she may be.  In the chapter on Personal