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of her own colour, and eleven others who were even blacker 

 than the father. A Negress bore to a Mulatto, nine or ten 

 black children and two or three of the colour of the father 

 (Nott and Gliddon). In the same family may be seen Mu- 

 latto children with crisp, or with light, straight hair (Bur- 

 meister). A Negro in Berlin had by a white woman seven 

 Mulatto girls, and four white boys. 1 Lucas 2 relates three 

 similar cases : a white woman had by a Negro a black child, a 

 Mulatto, and a white boy. Campbell 3 mentions a similar case. 

 When d'Abbadie 4 states, that among the red race in Abys- 

 sinia, black children are seen, and that among the Negroes of 

 these regions red and black individuals are seen in the same 

 tribe, they are probably mongrels, of which the type is incon- 

 stant. 



With regard to the mongrels of the American race, we 

 equally observe a great variation in external appearance. The 

 Mestizo-mongrels of white men and American women recog- 

 nized in Mexico by their yellowish, weak beard, and somewhat 

 oblique aperture of the eyes 5 have in Quito small foreheads and 

 coarse hair, small, pointed nose, and good beards ; some of them 

 have a fair skin and light hair, others are as dark as the 

 Indians ; 6 they are mostly well formed, yet easily recognizable 

 by their low foreheads and great leanness. 7 In the central 

 parts of Peru, on the contrary, of Herculean frame, and a 

 whiter colour, frequently with a yellowish tint. 8 In Chili they 

 are often taller but less compact than the Indians : still they 

 are broad-shouldered, with a short neck, short arms, small 

 hands and feet; and in this as well in hair, cheek-bone, flat 

 nose with large nostrils, resemble the Indians. 9 



In Concepcion they are as white as the Spaniards ; some of 



1 Siebold, " Journal f. Geburtsh." vii, p. 2. 



2 Loc. cit., i, p. 213. 



3 " E. in Siid.-Afr.," p. 360, 1816. 



4 " Bullet. Soc. Geogr., ii, p. 45, 1855. 



5 Muhlerpfordt, i, p. 261. 



6 Ulloa, " Voyage/' i, p. 228. 



7 Stevenson, ii, p. 177. 



8 Unanne, " Observ. sobre el clima de Lima," p. 106, 1815. 



9 Poppig, i, p. 201. 



