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like hereditary enemies. t This is expressed in the most glaring manner 
whenever they meet. The appearance of such hybrids differs striking- 
ly from that of the remaining ones. All whom I have had the opportun- 
ity of seeing were specially marked by slim vigorous stature and mus- 
cular strength. Their colour is a dark copper or coffee-brown and, as 
regards their facial features, incline much more to the Ethiopian than 
to the American race. Though the cheek-bones still continue to be 
strongly prominent, it is nevertheless not so striking as it is among the 
Indians, where it appears to a much greater degree. The nose is 
broad, it is true, but not turned up: even so, the lips are still always 
thick, but not puffy. The most striking 1 thing about them is without doubt 
the extraordinary hair which as it were does not seem to know in wliat di- 
rection to incline, whether towards the curly wool of Africa or the 
smooth hair of America, and so stands on end half-curly. A lighter 
complexion and smooth hair shows at once the mixed descent of Indian 
and European. 
1G5. The race produced from the mixture of a European and mul- 
atto woman undoubtedly constitutes one of the most beautiful stamps 
of human being for which in remaining portions of the New World, par- 
ticularly in North America, are reserved the special terms creole, mes- 
tique, and kastize, and in the Spanish possessions, quadroons. While 
the males of this mixed race appear to advantage amongst all other 
men, the female sex finds its perfection in Guiana. Their full truly 
plastic figure is still further improved by natural grace, by real elas- 
ticity and sprightliness of movement, by the delicately formed hands 
and arms, and pretty feet, while the dark brown sparkling eyes, the 
swarthy glowing complexion, the beautiful ivory-white teeth, and (lie 
luxuriant curly black hair lends to the face a charm which is peculiar 
even to itself alone. 
ICG. The different gradations in the colouring of the mixed breed 
can be fairly accurately represented in quite a simple manner with a 
glass of port wine and a glass of water, when one pours the half of each 
into a third empty glass. This mixture represents the mulatto colour. 
D one fills with this mixture another glass half-way, and then again 
pours into it an equal portion of clean water, one has the next genera- 
tion. After repeating the experiment ten times, every mixture of port- 
wine colour has entirely disappeared and one has accurately Ihe ten 
shades of colour from black to white until again pure white. 
107. In spite of the fact that in the last mentioned mixed breed 
(European and Mulatto) the physical gifts mostly keep pace with the 
intellectual ones, these people nevertheless up to the present belong to 
the despised class of East Indian pariahs, for whom every entrance 
into the circles of the pu re-blood aristocracy still remains closed. 
1 08. This brutal situation is the cancer that continues to make every 
social unification impossible, and not alone destroy the social life, but 
; u connection with’ the political, must lead within the not very distant 
future, to a state of affairs that threatens to be all the more dangerous 
t What with the opening-up I of the Colony, the gold-mining and balata industries, this i 
Very far from being the case now. l(Ed.) 
