SECT. III.] INTERMIXTURE OF RACES. 177 



race by pairing the mongrel with an inferior race, for instance, 

 in the Zambo, the offspring of the Negro and Mulatto (this 

 name is sometimes given to the offspring of the Negro and the 

 native Indian). The transition of the mongrels of lower races 

 into higher, and viceversd, succeeds, in a less number of genera- 

 tions, the more they approach the original type. In the Society 

 Islands, where there are but few mongrels, they are said to 

 assume the European type in the second or third generation. 1 

 The American Indian produces with a Zambo woman (Cabou- 

 rette), in the second generation, a mongrel resembling the 

 pure Indian ; the white with a Mestizo woman, one who assumes 

 the type of a white in the third generation ; in four generations 

 Mulattoes may become white, in five generations they may 

 become black. 2 Thus the Quintroon is in law considered 

 as a White in the United States. In Dutch Guiana the Quad- 

 roons are in the same conditions. 3 The Mestizo is considered 

 equal to a Negro-tertroon, so that his offsprings are Quad- 

 roons. It is scarcely necessary to observe, that these state- 

 ments refer only to physical conformation, and not to the intel- 

 lectual capacities of the mongrels, and under the supposition 

 that the mongrel, in order to pass into another race, should 

 uninterruptedly intermix with that race. 



On comparing the results of intermixture between various 

 human types with those of the crossing of animals, we obtain 

 analogous results. In some cases three generations have been 

 found sufficient to replace the old race by a new one; and, after 

 the fourth generation, no relapse to the old race is any longer 

 expected. According to Burdach, six uninterrupted impreg- 

 nations of an inferior race by a higher one are required in 

 sheep and horses ; according to others, twelve ; and, according 

 to Morel and Yinde, a continuous impregnation is requisite. 4 



1 Bennet, " Narr. of a whaling voy.," i, p. 149, 1840. 



2 Serres' assertion, that in an intermixture of a higher with a lower race, the 

 first parts with at least two-thirds of its character to the mongrel, has not 

 yet been confirmed by facts ; and this assertion seems to be a mere sequence 

 of the theory, that the higher races are destined to absorb the lower ones, 

 and to rule them. 



3 Fechner's " Centralbl.," p. 288, 1853, according to Castelnau. 



4 V. Sack, "Beschr. e. E. nach Surinam," i, p. 84, 1821. 



5 Chambon, " Traite de 1'education des moutons," ii, p. 278. 



