Note 2 — (RE-PRINTED BY DESIRE.)

The “red-haired Danes” have continued a source of terror and a name of reproach to the present day. On the first of this month a Longrock quarrel was the subject of a magisterial inquiry at the Penzance town-hall, when it was proved that the defendant, Jeffery, had called one of the complainants, Lawrence, who has rubrick hair, a “red-haired Dane.” In Sennen Cove, St. Just, and the western parishes generally, there has existed, time out of mind, a great antipathy to certain red-haired families, who were said to be descendants of the Danes, and whose ancestors were supposed, centuries before, to have landed in Whitsand Bay, and set fire to, and pillaged the villages. Indeed, this dislike to the Rufus-headed people was carried so far that few families would allow any member to marry them, so that the unfortunate race had the less chance of seeing their children lose the objectionable tinge of hair. ↑