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Negro, the stature on the whole more elegant, especially the 

 hands and feet, which latter are, however, rather flat. It may 

 also be noticed, that among Mulattoes sprung from Negroes 

 and Indian women on the Rio das Pedras (Paranahyba), the 

 Indian character predominates, namely, dark colour, broad 

 chest and shoulders, short neck, large angular head, bushy 

 hair, rather thin lips, well-shaped legs. 1 Poppig 2 describes 

 the Mestizo generally the child of an Indian woman and a 

 white man as resembling more the Indian. The Portuguese 

 Mulattoes also, at Ceylon, who are more numerous than the 

 Dutch, resemble in stature, shape of skull, and features, more 

 the Cingalese than Europeans. 3 Stevenson 4 states, from his 

 own observation, that the father influences the colour of the 

 Mestizo more than the mother. He also observes that the 

 Peruvians call the children of a white woman and a Negro 

 Mulatto, Zambo Mulatto, Quadroon ; whilst those of a white 

 man and a Negress, Mulatto woman, or Quadroon, are called 

 Mulatto Quadroon Quintroon, by which he endeavours to prove 

 that the mongrels of a white man approach the European 

 type a generation before those of a white woman. Tschudi, 5 

 however, considers this an error, and states that the designa- 

 tion is the same whether the mongrels proceed from the father 

 or the mother. 



Lucas 6 has by many examples proved that the characters of 

 mongrels are not constant ; sometimes those of the mother, at 

 other times those of the father predominate. The Danes pro- 

 duce with Hindoo women, children of European type and vigour; 

 but such is not the case with other European nations (Rush) . The 

 mongrels of Europeans and Mongols constantly exhibit the 

 type of the mother (Klaproth) ; those of Europeans and Hot- 

 tentots always exhibit the character of the father (Le Vaillant) . 

 With regard to the latter, Burchell 7 remarks, that the children 



1 A. De St. Hilaire, " Voy. aux sources du R. S. Francisco/' ii, p. 253, 1847. 



2 Loc. cit., i, p. 201. 



3 Schmarda, " R. um d. Erde," i, p. 482, 1861. 



4 " Eeise in Arauco," i, p. 180. 



5 Peru," i, p. 161, 1846. 



6 Loc. cit., ii, p. 3. 



7 Loc. cit., ii, p. 185. 



