"Among the blacks of Africa I have also seen some very beautiful women who did not have thick lips and snub noses...they had an 'aquiline nose, small mouth, coral lips, ivory teeth, large bright eyes, gentle features and a bosom and everything else of utter perfection.'" p. 17

Their beauty for white male mariners and merchants was predicated on having non-traditional African features and instead a proximity to white-European features (i.e. similar to the Goddess Venus).