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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Baker, The Albert N'yanza, etc. CUL-DAR85.A56. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).

Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 339, n38: "'The Nile Tributaries,' 1867; 'The Albert N'yanza,' 1866, vol. i. p. 218."

Samuel W. Baker. 1866. The Albert N'yanza, great basin of the Nile, and the explorations of the Nile sources. 2 volumes. London.

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(p. 217) from the movement of the tongue has "a wriggling motion indescribably ludicrous during conversation

p. 218. "It is difficult to explain real beauty; scars upon the face are in Europe a blemish; but here & in the Arab countries no beauty can be perfect until the cheeks or temples have been gashed. Each tribe has its peculiar fashion as to the position & form of the cicatrice"

p. 210 "Every tribe has a distinct & unchanging fashion for dressing the hair" "To perfect the coiffure of a man requires a period of from 8 to 10 years

The Albert N'yanza by S. W. Baker 1866 Vol 1.

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