CHAPTEK XIV. 



ASSOCIATION. — NUMERICAL PROPORTIONS. 



In order to complete the foregoing account, I will here insert a 

 specification of the several races occurring at each place visited ; or in 

 other words, an analysis of the population. 



In the United States, three races are familiarly known : the White, 

 the Negro, and the Mongolian ; the latter represented, both by the 

 aboriginal population, and by a few Chinese settled in our princi- 

 pal cities. A fourth race, the Malayan (represented chiefly by Poly- 

 nesians), is not uncommon in the ports frequented by whale-ships; 

 and in some few instances, I have met with a fifth race, the Telingan 

 or true Indian. 



At Madeira, I met with two races : the White and the Negro ; but 

 the latter race, occurred in only a few instances, and exclusively at 

 the principal seaport town. 



At the Cajje Verd Islands, I met with the same two races ; but they 

 occurred in inverse proportions; and the White race was here com- 

 paratively rare. 



At Rio Janeiro and the vicinity, I fell in with only the same two 

 races, — the White and the Negro; and they appeared to be here in 

 nearly equal proportions. 



The same two races, were again seen at the mouth of the Rio 

 Negro, in North Patagonia ; but a third race, the Mongolian or the 

 aboriginal, was said to be present, among the population of the neigh- 

 bouring village. 



In Terra del Fuego, there occurred but a single race, — the Mongo- 

 lian, or the aboriginal. I have never heard of runaway sailors resort- 

 ing to the southern side of the Straits of Magellan. 



In Northern Chili, at Valparaiso and Santiago, I met with the three 

 races last mentioned : the White, the Mongolian or the aboriginal, and 

 the Negro ; but the latter race, was decidedly rare. 



