Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-11-14
lTfom Tie caom5erslrrg Franklin Rrgesitcryl
CnMstIlNIc A1-n


There has heen exhibited within these Two or three
DAYS, fvssl N0fHra really surprisq-a N.rrn CbiLl
WIN wihtencss OF shin which over part of lis
mead spreads over lis breast covers ito lrgs and
thighs down To the ancles. Child ir accordipr
to Us keener was horn in Virginia of black parents and
j. about ,Wo years of age-at SIGHT may be cordsr
ed an Abino but upon minute inspection appears 10 e
phenomenon OF nature, sWi gcRGrS aud Is far as nv
f'hiiie eNtcls non dcscript. The negro Albros ,rc
az two hihnss'ci as are perfectly white at their birth
ana snch as Become by gradual destruction of the
DlacA coOni OF their skins. counnencur from white
Spot somewhere exhibiting itself and thence eXtcn,n1
all over The body Both kinds of Albno's or white ne
groe-, born of white parents, not uncommon in Afri
I'll. we'll as elsewhere. ''
such a are horn white always of a delicate frame
Rad constitution, with skin devoid of that natural rI
dsh tnge which rharartcrzes the child of white narcu
aud having milky white morbid appearance like the
skin of dead ho,y Their hearin@ is haJ tI;, t
TOO !, extremely weak and unable bear the light of tc
si' MT u highly -crvceabe in the deep shade of the
forest or he darkness ofmight " '"'
tbs strange and unaccOnnabIe pecuIiarty or,bc cor
nioh Oh tie human race, is not confined the natives
OF Aif,ca aione-it rs not uncommon in islands of
Cc!ion anu Java aud all the countries those atitudcs
SssuIe ANA other phi. soloFsis have described IL AS
curing IN Eeropc and america, Cride tncgcloJ,sa, ,y
tcfs f|""o-ia 20. h6d. Rol.) The European Abi-
no, besides the extreme delcacy the frame contnt
on and vision which distinguishes the African Alblno il
described as possessing fiery Of eye- rcncss
90 % oNiis 10 TIE great impulse of Tie blood
70 the fea%eu vessels of that (Tdc EYcycIOpq.
di6 difcfe ~i!6acJ The production the AIbno has
"dfs ee considered as the effect at disease has
been arlhncdb y to vtous secretion in the skin
10 ne,lchcF o. 'Hr .mentn nigrnn oftiie eve ride
ot". F"yS.ID Ny another 10 an entire absence ofihe
ftte 'nnscoiIn ~. tntd the dead yyhiseness nf
td sAtp e. anu Ny Button 10 cNCItiOn nltOre Ia
IecoVe Whe coiohI which he supposc he the raI-
t'i and primitive colour of man however it may now he
HiOul"eu ny ci',na'c manners ana ailfneiit.
Inc negro child eXhnited IN this place DISTINGUISHED
~ none oi those peciarities which the Aiho-Is
idfi H. hearing ats good - usual with OH
er chudIen, except bues tincc which pPry.des The
white OF the eye and which may perhaps he common to
Young negroes The black part the skni a. black a. The
common run of nero skins-the ,ylfe mart of tbc
chids SKIN - not 10 he distinguished from the most deli
cate White skin exhibiting that natural ford appe,r7mce
which distinguishes The white person non, he Nbino
and distinctly transmitting the blue colour offs Nttle
Neins-its THIGHS, LEGS and arms are incrsnersed win
small, Wen defined black spots The child remains a.
was born exhibiting INCREASE of the Wilderness oTtr
SKIN % IS ne case will Albnos. The hair on lis head
.i' cover me whiIc skim is lke the driven sno whilst
the rest is like that of the natural nesyo - ''4'