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South American States^ almost exclusively populated by Span- 

 iards and Portuguese^ are now chiefly inhabited by a mongrel 

 race, the issue of that intermixture. These mongrel races 

 may certainly be partly considered as perfectly raceless masses. 

 No constant type has as yet been formed, probably because 

 there is a continuous re-crossing with either of the parent 

 stocks and their direct descendants. But we should not feel 

 surprised to see a new race gradually developed, which might 

 be compared to the hare-rabbits. That these cross-breds of 

 Indians and Whites are not wanting in culture, and, in certain 

 respects, are superior to the aborigines, as well as the Creoles, 

 is best shown by the present war in Mexico, where the Re- 

 public, under the leadership of a mongrel (Juarez), offers a 

 heroic resistance to a weU-disciph'ned army. 



We know but little concerning the intermixture of European 

 nations with South- Asiatics and Malays. Despite the great num- 

 ber of connections between the Dutch men and Java women, 

 which generally prove fertile, and the products of which are 

 called "Liplaps," no mongrel race has been produced ; as little 

 as in India, so that in both colonies the belief prevails that 

 these mongrels become sterile inter se in the third generation. 



The fertility of Europeans with Polynesians is attested by 

 the history of Pitcairn island, where from a few English sailors 

 and some Tahitian women a small mongrel race of about two 

 hundred individuals originated, who are favourably distin- 

 guished by bodily conformation, muscular power, and intelli- 

 gence. But this instance is to some extent invalidated by the 

 circumstance, that even upon islands where there is much in- 

 tercourse between ship- crews and native women no mongrel 

 race has been formed, whilst the natives themselves diminish 

 and apparently approach extinction. 



The connections between whites and Australian females 

 seem to be the least prolific of all. According to Broca, 

 only a single bastard has been mentioned by many travellers. 

 Whilst the terms designating in America the numerous cross- 

 breeds form no small vocabulary, and whilst the English 

 in Australia and New South Wales have a number of nick- 

 names for the varieties of white colonists, there is no term 



