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droons, and Mestizos•* but the Spaniards, from 
whom these appellations are borrowed, have many 
other and much nicer distinctions, of which the 
following account is given by Don Anthonio de 
Ulloa, in his description of the inhabitants of Car- 
thagena: 
(t Among the tribes which are derived from an 
intermixture of the whites with the negroes, the 
first are the mulattoes; next to these are the ter - 
cerones, produced from a white and a mulatto, 
with some approximation to the former, but not 
so near as to obliterate their origin. After these, 
follow the quarterones , proceeding from a white 
and a terceron. The last are the quinterons , who 
owe their origin to a white and quarteron. This is 
the last gradation, there being no visible difference 
between them and the whites, either in colour or 
features; nay they are often fairer than the Spani¬ 
ards. The children of a white and quinteron con¬ 
sider themselves as free from all taint of the negro 
race. Every person is so jealous of the order of 
their tribe or cast, that if, through inadvertence you 
call them by a degree lower than what they actual- 
* A Sambo is the offspring of a black, woman by a mulatto man, or 
vice versa. 
Mulatto — of a black woman by a white man. 
Quadroon — of a mulatto woman by a white man. 
Mestize or mustee — of a quadroon woman by a white man. 
The offspring of a Mestize by a white man are white by law. A 
mestize therefore in our islands is, I suppose, the quinteron of the 
Spaniards. 
