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Naming of Types. 
which hud been previously cooled in big ice-tubs : tlie other refreshments, 
dishes etc. — it is no use saying anything further. Like everywhere 
else the prize for beauty amongst this brilliant assemblage was indis- 
putably taken by three Creole ladies, and 1 had the good fortune to' 
dance with two of these earthly goddesses. As already mentioned ail 
ladies are heartily fond of dancing, but they are correspondingly bad 
dancers. The ball was over at 1 o’clock in the morning. 
1(30. It is unnecessary to state that a ball, given in such a relaxing 
climate, in spite of quadrilles and country-dances only being indulged 
in, cannot be one of the so-called pleasures for a German: but the pretty 
and ugly Creoles think otherwise. With white trousers and white jacket, 
a silk handkerchief negligently slung round his neck, at 11 o’clock in 
the morning, the time for a morning call, the dandy, the man of the 
world, the gentleman of boa ton, hurries to his swagger lady-friend 
just as the negro, — one might almost say the European ape, — does in his 
own sphere of life, and enquires after her health, listens to her heart's 
desires for the day, or possibly, as one more favoured, takes lunch with 
her on cold meat, fruits and cakes. Lunch is an interpolated repast 
between the real breakfast and the chief meal which is only served in 
the evening: at the latter and at night, everybody must appear in dress 
coat and black trousers. 
101. In European families, English is of course the general language 
of conversation: not so among the coloured people and negroes, who talk 
a mixture, one might almost say, a real “pidgin” (Kauderwalsch) de- 
rived from almost all the idioms of Europe and Africa, the indigenous 
^so-called “Creole-Uutcli”: the Dutch language which was brought by 
the first owners of the Colony constitutes its basis. In the course of the 
constant changes of ownership, the next-following temporary posses- 
sors on each occasion left behind certain traces of their language 
with the result that, in the course of time, among the coloured people 
and negroes, many a common expression is seen to be derived from 
the Dutch, French, English and African occupation, and has now also 
spread amongst the indigenous coastal tribes. 
102. Just like their speech, the coloured population also consists of 
the most different racial relationships, amongst which one particular 
degree, in spite of its general name, still has a special designation. By 
“Creoles” one understands all those who have been born in British 
Guiana from immigrants, whether both their parents are- Europeans, 
Africans, East Indians, or their mother the one, and father the other: 
all children born in the Colony are Creole. This definition extends even 
up to domestic animals, according to which we get Creole horses, Creole 
cows, Creole pigs, Creole sheep etc. 
Hid. A second general term “Coloured people'” comprises all the differ- 
ent gradations arising from the mixture of Europeans with African 
and Indian women. The race resulting fpom the mixture of Europeans 
with negro women is called “Mulatto.” 
161. Mixtures of Indians and Negroes are very rare, the former gen- 
erally regarding the latter with supreme contempt, even hating them 
* This is still in restricted use in the Essequebo, at least, and is known as "Takkey, 
Takkqy.” (A.R.FW.) 
