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CREOLE NEGROES. 



white man than the mulattos. When women 

 relate any deed of danger that has been sur- 

 mounted or undertaken, they generally state 

 that the chief actor in it was a large mamaluco, 

 mamalueam ; as if they thought this descrip- 

 tion of men to be superior to all others. Ma- 

 malucos may enter into the mulatto regiments, 

 and are pressed into the regiments of the line as 

 being men of colour, without any regard to the 

 sources from which their blood proceeds. 



Of the domesticated Indians I have already 

 elsewhere given what accounts I could collect, 

 and what I had opportunities of observing. The 

 wild Indians are now only to be met with at a 

 great distance from the coast of Pernambuco ; 

 and although they are very near to Maranham, 

 and are dreaded neighbours, I had no means of 

 seeing any of them. 



I now proceed to mention that numerous and 

 valuable race of men, the Creole negroes ; a tree 

 of African growth, which has thus been trans- 

 planted, cultivated, and much improved by its 

 removal to the New World. The creole negroes 

 stand alone and unconnected with every other 

 race of men, and this circumstance alone would 

 be sufficient, and indeed contributes much to 

 the effect of uniting them to each other. The 

 mulattos, and all other persons of mixed blood, 

 wish to lean towards the whites, if they can 

 possibly lay any claim to relationship. Even 



