of the Ifthmus of America. 109 



The Copper-eolourM Indians feem not to 

 refpeft tliefe fo much as tliofe of their own 

 Complexion, looking on them as fomewhat 

 monftrous. They are not a diftind Race 

 by themfelves, but now and then one is of Co 

 bred of a Copper-colour'd Father and Mo-perJJ* 

 ther ^ and I have feen a Child of lefs than ^ our ' d 

 a Year old of this fort Some would be v 

 apt to fufpeft they might be the Off-fpring 

 of fome European Father : But befides that 

 the Europeans come little here, and have lit- 

 tle Commerce with the IndianA/Vomm 

 when they do come, thefe white People 

 are as different from the Europeans in fome 

 refpe&s, as from the Copper-colourd In- 

 dians in others. And befides, where an 

 European lies with an Indian-Woimi\ the 

 Child is always a Mbjiefe, or Tawney, as 

 is well known to all who have been in the 

 Wtit-Indks 5 where there are Mojiefas, 

 Mullattos* of feveral Gradations between 

 the White, and the Black or Copper-colourd 

 according as the Parents are ; even fo 

 Decompov! . !$ as a Mullatto-Fina, the 

 Child of a Mul/ath>~Mm, and a Mofiefa 

 woman, >rv. 



But neither is the Child of a Man and and Pa- 

 Woman of thefe white Indians, white like ^ ot 

 the Parents, but O ooer-colour'd as their 

 Parents were. For fo La cent a ^ told me, 

 and gave me th is as hisConje&ure how thefe 

 came to be White, That 'twas through the 



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