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fact, that the union of Caucasian women with Negroes is very 

 frequently non-productive. 



Mr. Theodore Waitz, author of a scientific treatise on An- 

 thropology (the first volume is entirely devoted to the study of 

 general doctrines), has carefully examined the question of the 

 intermixture of races, and endeavoured to reconcile the results 

 of these crossings with the system of monogenists. He was, 

 nevertheless, obliged to admit, from the numerous documents 

 collected, that in many cases the cross-breeds are feebly con- 

 stituted. Thus, in Senegal the offspring of the Foulahs and 

 the Negroes are handsome and more intelligent than the latter, 

 but there are amongst them many stammerers, blind, hunch- 

 backs, and idiots. The children of Arabs and the women of 

 Darfour are debilitated and little vivacious, and the author adds 

 that the children of a European woman and a Negro are rarely 

 vigorous. 1 



It seems thus to result from these various investigations, 

 that the union between the Negro and a white woman is little 

 productive, and that their offspring is neither vigorous nor 

 vivacious. Nevertheless, we admit this conclusion with some 

 reserve, because the avowed unions of Negroes with white 

 women are comparatively rare, and consequently the authors 

 who have spoken of them could only have their inferences 

 upon a few facts. The inverse intermixture between the white 

 man and the iiegress is, on the contrary, very frequent, and as 

 prolific in the first generation as in the direct alliances between 

 individuals of the same race. 



It is equally known that Mulattoes and Mulatresses are very 

 prolific in their recrossings with the parent races. The great 

 number of individuals of every shade, designated by the name 

 Quadroon, Quinterons, Tercerons, Griffes, Marabouts, Ca- 

 bres, etc., and by the collective name of mixed blood, proves it. 

 The hybridity of Whites and Negroes is thus, at least, equal to 



1 -Theodor Waitz (of Marburg), Anthropologie der Naturvolker, p. 203. 

 Leipzig, 1859. [Translated inio English for tLe Anthropological Society cf 

 London, and edited by J. Frederick Collingwood, Esq., F.G.S., F.B.S.L. : 8vo, 

 London, 18G3. EDITOR.] Mollien, Voyage dans I'intrrieur de I'Afrique. 

 Rafael, Voyage dans I'Afrique occidentale, 1846, p. 51. Mohauimed-el-Tounsy, 

 Voyage au Darfour, p. 277, trad. Joinard. Paris, 1845. 



