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descendants of natives and Europeans. Some 

 of these people are very little, others of the or- 

 dinary stature of the copper-coloured Indians. 

 They are neither feeble, nor sickly, nor albinoes ; 

 and they differ from the copper-coloured races 

 only by a much less tawny skin. It would be 

 useless after these considerations, to insist on 

 the distance of the mountains of the Upper 

 Oroonoko from the shore inhabited by the 

 Dutch. I will not deny, that descendants of 

 fugitive Negroes (negros alzados del palenquej 

 may have been seen among the Caribbees, at 

 the sources of the Esquibo; but no white man 

 ever went from the eastern coast to the Rio 

 Gehette and the Ocamo in the interior of Guy- 

 ana. It must also be observed, although we 

 may be struck with the singular union of fair 

 tribes at one point to the east of Esmeralda, it 

 is no less certain, that tribes have been found 

 in other parts of America, distinguished from 

 the neighbouring tribes by the colour of their 

 skin being much less tawny. Such are the 

 Arivirianpes and Maquiritares of the Rio Ven- 

 tuario and the Padamo, the Paudacotoes and 

 Paravenas of the Erevato, the Viras and Ariguas 

 of the Caura, the Mologagoes of Brazil, and the 

 Guayanas of the Uruguay *. 



* The Cumangotoes, the Maypures, the Mapojoes, and 

 some hordes of the Tamanacs, are also fair, but in a less 



