These pretty much clinch it. Apologies for the offensive language of those days: Pacific-City Enterprise (Pacific City, Iowa [!]), Nov. 5, 1857: "Let old John Bull once get his blood fully up, and all Asia, with its hundreds of millions of spindle-shanked Hindoos, flat-headed Tartars and hog-eyed Chinese can't stop him." Solano-Napa [Calif.] News-Chronicle (Mar. 17, 1877): "A pair of Chinese lovers...two representatives of the hog-eyed race."
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