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woolly hair of the Negro. Nor is it necessary for me to recall the 

 characteristic features of the Whites in order to contrast them with 

 what has been said above of the Indians and Negroes. 



Only a few words more concerning half-breeds are needed to show 

 how deeply seated are the primary differences between the pure 

 races. Like distinct species among animals, different races of men, 

 when crossing, bring forth half-breeds ; and the half-breeds between 

 these different races differ greatly. The hybrid between White and 

 Negro, called Mulatto, is too well known to require further descrip- 

 tion. His features are handsome, his complexion clear, and his 

 character confiding, but indolent. The hybrid between the Indian 

 and Negro, known under the name of Cafuzo, is quite different. 

 His features have nothing of the delicacy of the Mulatto ; his com- 

 plexion is dark ; his hair long, wiry, and curly ; and his character 

 exhibits a happy combination between the jolly disposition of the 

 Negro and the energetic, enduring powers of the Indian. The 

 hybrid between White and Indian, called Mammeluco in Brazil, is 

 palUd, effeminate, feeble, lazy, and rather obstinate ; though it 

 seems as if the Indian influence had only gone so far as to ob- 

 literate the higher characteristics of the White, without imparting 

 its own energies to the offspring. It is very remarkable how, in 

 both combinations, with Negroes as well as Whites, the Indian im- 

 presses his mark more deeply upon his progeny than the other races, 

 and how readily, also, in further crossings, the pure Indian char- 

 acteristics are reclaimed and those of the other races thrown off. 

 I have known the offspring of an hybrid between Indian and 

 Negro witli an hybrid between Lidian and White resume almost 

 completely the characteristics of the pure Indian. 



