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dition, 1 after a few generations, excel the Spaniards of these 

 parts. In the state of Buenos Ayres the coloured race 

 has certainly, since 1778, been reduced from one-third of 

 the whole population to one-fourth. The cause of this 

 seems to be their lesser fecundity and greater mortality in com- 

 parison with the Whites. It must not, however, be under- 

 stood that the coloured population die off in the above propor- 

 tion, as the diminution is also owing to their fusion with the 

 white population, into which they are gradually absorbed. 2 In 

 Peru, where only the coloured population and the Indians 

 attain a great age, 3 the Cholos (mongrels of Mestizos and 

 Indians) are said to excel all other classes of the population in 

 bodily strength, activity, and talent ; yet their education is very 

 indifferent. 4 We may now mention a series of opposite in- 

 stances. The mongrels of Europeans and natives of Northern 

 Australia about Port Essington do not appear to thrive. 5 Are 

 they, perhaps, like other mongrel children in Australia, killed ? 

 In the country of the Fulahs in Africa the Toucouleurs, the 

 descendants of the immigrant Pules (Peuls) and the Negroes, 

 are physically and mentally superior to the latter, but there are 

 found among them, especially in Futa-Torro, many stammerers, 

 blind, hunchbacks, idiots, etc. 6 The children produced by 

 Arabs with the women of Darfur are weakly, and have but 

 little vitality. 7 It has already been stated that the children 

 of a white woman by a Negro are rarely viable ; Serres even 

 asserts that they are rarely prolific. The marriages between 

 the French and Indian women of the north of the United 

 States are, on the whole, very productive, and the children, 

 despite the Indian mode of life, take more after the father 

 than the mother, the girls particularly so. If such cross-breeds 

 intermarry, the girls predominate in their offspring ; the chil- 



1 Brackenridge, "E. nach Sud.-Am." ii, pp. 74, 152, 1821, according to 

 Azara, Funes, and Passos. 



2 " Zeitschr. f. AUg. Erdk. N. Folge," iv, p. 141. 



3 Poppig, p. 208. 



4 Brackenridge, "E. nach Sud-Am.," ii, p. 167, 1821. 



Macgillivray, " Narr. of the voyage of H.M.S. Eattlesnake," i, p. 151, 1852. 



6 Mollien, " E. in d. Innere v. Africa," p. 174, 1820 ; Eaffenel, " Voy. dans 

 1'Afr. occ.," p. 51, 1846. 



7 Mohammed-el-Tounsy, " Voy. au Darf p. Jomard," p. 277, 1845. 



