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to ascertain those of their bodies, so what I shall now set forth 

 is stated with much doubt. It represents my own opinion, quali- 

 fied by that of others whose judgments I have sought. In the 

 Guinea type we have a folk of essentially limited intelligence. 

 The children are rather nimble-witted, but when the body begins 

 to be mature it dominates the mind. It seems likely that thus the 

 largest element of the race is to find its place in the field or in the 

 lower stages of craft work. The Zulu type appears to me fit for 

 anything that the ordinary men of our own race can do. They 

 remain through life alert and with a capacity for a vigorous reac- 

 tion with their associates. From them may come the leaders of 

 their kindred of less masterful quality. From the Arab type we 

 may expect more highly educable people than is afforded by the 

 other distinct groups. They have more delicate qualities. They 

 lack the wholesome exuberance of the ordinary negro, which is 

 commonly termed " bumptiousness." Their nature is often what 

 we may term clerical. They are inclined to be somber, but are 

 not morose in the manner of a " musty " elephant, as is frequently 

 the case with the Guinea and Zulu types. Of the red or freckled 

 negroes I have no sufficient grounds for an oi3inion, yet they as a 

 whole impress me less favorably than any other of the distinct 

 groups. As for the unclassified remainder of the blacks, it can 

 only be said that they seem to be as varied in their mental as they 

 are in their physical character. 



The mulattoes of this country appear to be of less importance 

 to the future of the people with which they are classed than they 

 are in other parts of the world, where the white element of the 

 mixture is from other than the Teutonic stock. They are in gen- 

 eral of feeble vitality, rarely surviving beyond middle age. My 

 father, an able physician, who had been for nearly all of a long- 

 life in contact with negroes, was of the opinion that he had never 

 seen a half-breed who was more than sixty years old. There is 

 certainly a notable lack of aged people of a hue that would indi- 

 cate that they were anywhere near an equal mixture of the white 

 and black races. Those in which the blood of white stock pre- 

 dominates appear to be more enduring than the half-breeds. 



While the intellectual qualities of the mixed white and black 

 are often very good and the attractiveness of the person and man- 

 ner sometimes remarkable, they have in general a rather bad repu- 

 tation as regards trustworthiness. Such a view of mestizos is com- 

 mon in all countries where they occur. Humboldt is quoted 

 (though I have not found the matter in his works) as saying that 

 all mixed races have rather the evil than the good of the races 

 from which they sprang. In the case of 4he mulattoes, at least, 



