Spencer mentions that during an eruption in Hawaii, "King Kamahameha cut off part of his own hair" ...

"and threw it into the torrent (of lava)." The Tonga regarded the pubic hairs as under the special care of the devil, and with great ceremony made haste to remove them.

The female inhabitants of some portions of the coast of Guinea remove the pubic hairs as fast as they appear.

A curious custom of Mohammedan ladies after marriage is to rid themselves of the hirsute appendages of the pubes.

Depilatory ointments are employed, consisting of equal parts of slaked lime and arsenic made into a paste with rose-water.