BERMUDIAN FAMILIES. 



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4, cT. W. S., 6 years. Eyes dark brown; hair light brown, wavy; 



could easily pass for white; skin 4, 40, 16, 40. 

 5 and 6, cf. A. S., 9 . A. S., t 4 months. Twins; said to have had 



dark brown hair and fair skin. 



7, cf. A. J., 18 years. Eyes gray; skin say N 7 per cent. 



8, 9. V. J., 16 years. Eyes brown; hair black, wavy; skin of a 



yellow medium color. 



9, 9. B.J. , 13 years. Eyes blue gray; hair light brown, very curly. 



10, cf . A. J., 12 years. Eyes gray; hair black, curly; skin say N 20 



per cent. 



11, 9. A. J. ,7 years. Eyesblack;hairblack,wavy;skin23,4o,is,22. 



12, 9 . P. J., 4 years. Eyes brown; hair light brown, wavy; skin 



19, 35, 20, 26. 



13, cT. H. J., 2 years. Eyes brown; hair brown, curly; skin i6, 44, 



14, 26. 



14, 9 . C. S., 4 years. Eyes dark blue; when bom hair was nearly 



black, became lighter, now growing darker, a medium 

 brown, lighter about the face, and curly; skin 14, 38, 20, 28. 



15, cT- C. S., 2% years. Eyes dark blue; hair like II 14, except 



wavy; skin 18, 45, 15, 22. 



16, 9. G. S., 3 months. Eyes blue; hair medium brown; skin 5, 40, 



15. 40. 



Pedigree 28. P. Family. 



I Gen. — H. A. P., 38 years, the son of a white man, I. P. (a white Bermudian, 

 possibly of Spanish origin, who had dark eyes and dark 

 straight hair), and of a fair-skinned woman (whose father 

 was white and mother colored) who has a broad, typical 

 nose; eyes dark brown; hair once black and kinky, now 

 white; skin 10, 45, 16, 29. H. A. P. has heavy features; 

 dark eyes; black straight hair; skin 9, 36, 15, 40. He mar- 

 ried a woman, A. B. [P.], whose father was a white man, a 

 soldier, with gray eyes, and dark, straight hair, and whose 

 mother was colored and had also a blue-eyed son. A. B. P. 

 is 33 years old; eyes gray; hair dark brown and wavy; 

 skin 10, 47, IS, 28. They have two children. 

 II Gen. — I, 9. C. P., 11 years. Eyes dark brown; hair like her father's, 

 but slightly wavy on the ends; skin 18, 46, 14, 22. 

 2, cf. S. P., 9 years. Eyes light brown; hair medium brown, 

 straight: could pass for white, except for shape of his 

 mouth and lips; skin 10, 38, 20, 32.* 



Pedigree 29. P. Family. 



I Gen. — A. F., 53 years, an Englishman with clear blue eyes; hair medium 

 brown and perfectly straight; mustache sandy; skin 5, 29, 

 27, 39; married a negrcss with tyi^ical negro features and 

 hair; skin 45, 40, 7, 8. Eight children were born to them. 

 (Sec fig. 12.) 



• The mother says it is difficult to get these children educated. She can not send 

 them to the white school, and at the colored one they are called " half- whites " and teased 

 by the other children. This is a very respectable family. 



