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FREE POPULATION'. 



the feelings which had been roused on these 

 occasions of long duration ; they would continue 

 to act, long after the cessation of the series of 

 occurrences which had called them forth. 



The free population of Brazil at the present 

 time consists of Europeans ; Brazilians, that is, 

 white persons born in Brazil ; mulattos, that is, 

 the mixed cast between the whites and blacks, 

 and all the varieties into which it can branch ; 

 mamalucos, that is, the mixed cast between the 

 whites and Indians, and all its varieties ; Indians 

 in a domesticated state, who are called gene- 

 rally Caboclos ; and those who still remain in 

 a savage state, and are called generally Ta- 

 puyas ; negroes born in Brazil, and manumitted 

 Africans ; lastly, Mestizos, that is, the mixed 

 cast between the Indians and negroes. Of 

 slaves, I shall speak by-and-by more at large ; 

 these are Africans, Creole negroes, mulattos, 

 and mestizos. The maxim of the civil law, 

 partus sequitur ventrem, is in force here as well 

 as in the colonies of other nations. * 



* This was not the case at one time in the French islands. 

 " Quand quelque commandcur abuse dune negrc, T enfant 

 mulastre qui en vient est libre, cL le perc est oblige" de le nour- 

 rir et de V entretenir jusqii a Vage de douze am, sans V amende 

 a laquelle il est encore condamne." — Histoire des Antilles, 

 &c torn. ii. p. 460. 



Labat tells us that " Le. roi a fait revivre par sa Declara- 

 tion la lot Romainc, qui veut que les en fans suivens le sort du 

 rentrc qui les a p&tez" and this revival took place in 167-1* 



