98 RACES OF INDIANS. 



tended to degrade even these step-children of 

 Nature. If to raise them to the rank of intel 

 lectual beings had been really the object in 

 view, rather than making them the mock pro 

 fessors of a religion they are incapable of un 

 derstanding, they should have been taught the 

 arts of agriculture and architecture, and the 

 method of breeding cattle ; they should have 

 been made proprietors of the land they culti- 

 v vated, and should have freely enjoyed its pro 

 duce. Had this been done, los barbaros might 

 soon have stood on a level with the gente ra 

 tionale. 



There are in California many different races 

 of Indians, whose languages vary so much from 

 each other, as sometimes to have scarcely any 

 resemblance ; in the single mission of Santa 

 Clara more than twenty languages are spoken. 

 These races are all alike ugly, stupid, dirty, 

 and disgusting : they are of a middle size, 

 weak, and of a blackish colour; they have 

 flat faces, thick lips, broad negro-noses, scarcely 

 any foreheads, and black, coarse, straight hair. 

 The powers of their mind lie yet profoundly 

 dormant ; and La Perouse does not perhaps 



