NOT EUGENE8IC. 39 



generation. Are they equally prolific in their direct alliances 

 as in their mixed ones ? Are their children arriving at ma- 

 turity as the others ? And finally, when these children inter- 

 marry, are they and their descendants prolific ? These ques- 

 tions are yet unanswered. They can only be solved after a 

 long series of observations collected by men of science; not 

 by travellers who view the populations superficially, but by 

 close observers, and principally by physicians resident in these 

 localities. In the mean while, here is another passage from 

 the work of Prof. Waitz, quoted by him from Seemann. 1 " The 

 Mulattoes of the Negroes and Whites at Panamd are prolific 

 between themselves, but their children are brought up with 

 difficulty; whilst the families of the pure races produce less 

 children, which however arrive at maturity." The Europeans 

 of Panam are of Spanish origin. The prolificness of the 

 Mulattoes of the first degree is clearly indicated in this pas- 

 sage, but doubts may be entertained as to the fecundity of 

 their descendants. The intermixtures of Negroes and Euro- 

 peans are not the only ones the results of which exhibit defects 

 to the observers. " The Mulattoes," says M. Boudin, 2 " are 

 very often inferior to the two parent stocks, both in vitality, 

 intelligence, or morality. Thus the Mulattoes of Pondicherry, 

 known by the name of Topas, exhibit a mortality not only 

 more considerable than that of the Indians, but greater than 

 the Europeans, though the latter are considerably shorter lived 

 in India than in Europe. Positive documents on this point 

 have been published in the Revue Coloniale. So much as to 

 the vitality. 



" In Java, the Mulattoes of the Dutch and Malays are so 

 little intelligent that they could never be employed as func- 

 tionaries. All Dutch historians are agreed upon ^his point. 

 This much for their intelligence. 



" The Mulattoes of Negroes and Indians, known by the 

 name of Zambos in Peru and Nicaragua, form the worst class 



1 Seemann, Beise um die Welt, bd. i, p. 314, 1853. Waitz, Anthropologie, 

 p. 207. 



2 Bulletins de la Societe d' Anthropologie : proces-verbal de la seance du le 

 Mars, I860, vol. i, p. 206. 



