the borders of the colonial settlements a numerous and rapidly
increasing race. The Griquas now occupy the banks of the
Gariep or Orange river, for the space of at least sevfen hundred
miles, where their numbers were estimated some years ago to
be at least 5,000 souls. They are powerful marauders, and
harass by their predatory incursions all the native tribes in
their vicinity, and are frequently troublesome to the neighbouring
colonists. Great numbers of the same mixed race Tire
j n other parts thriving agriculturists ; and there is a large community
at Griqua Town settled under the government of the
Missionaries of the United Brethren, by whose means they
had been converted to Christianity ahd have adopted the habits
o f civilized society.* Another mixed tribe in Africa has become
one of the more powerful nations in th a t continent. The Fella-
tahs are,-according to the most recent and accurate accounts,
a mixed progeny from the intermixture of the Red Poules, the
old inhabitants of Fouta Dhiallo and Fouta Torro, with the
Iolofs, Jallonka, and Torodos, as well as with other black
nations with whom they have coalesced.*}* The intermediate
race resulting from this intermixture bas^ become so much
more numerous and powerful as to have superseded the original
Poules in their native lands, and to have spread themselves
moreover by conquest over a great part of the interior of
Soudan. In South America, both the European .colonists and
the Negroes whom they have introduced have, intermixed very
extensively with the native population. In Brazil, the mixed
breed between the Negroes and the aborigines are termed
Cafusos : they are a. very peculiar race, whose physical character
has been described by Von Spix and Martius.$ The
Spaniards have everywhere intermixed with the native people
in South America. In Paraguay, the mixed breed constitutes,
according to Don Felix de Azara, a great majority of the
people termed Spaniards or white men,* and they are said to be
a people superior in physical qualities to either of the races from
* For an account of the Griqua, or bastard Hottentot race, see Thompson’s
Travels in South Africa.
T MoUien, Voyages en Afrique.—Golberry, Voyage au Sénégal.
X Von Spix und Martius, Reisen in Hrasilien. th. 1.
which they have sprung, and - much more prolific than the
aborigines. The following is the description given of them
by Azara: “ Ces métis s’unirent en général les uns aux autres,
pareequ’il ne passé en Amérique que très peu de femmes
Européennes, et ce sont'les- desceridans de ces’métis qui composent
aujourd’hui au Paraguay la plus grande partie de ce
qu’on appelle Espagnols. Ils' me paraissent avoir quelque
supériorité -sûr les Espagnols d’Europe; par :lëüT taille;’ par
l’élégance de leurs'formës^ët même par la blancheur de leur
peau. Ges faits me font. Soupçonner non seulement que le
mélange des races'les amélï'dfe, mais*, Ohèur-fe que ' -Fespèce
Européerme F emporte-à 4a l<mgü<’e^%Ur' l ’Americaine, leù dül
moihslesex'e masculin sur le femihin.*
In the north of Asia there‘are innumerable instaücé’#qf intermix
ture of brfied between I the Tartar, Môh^dliàli and Tungusian
races, and thefRuSsians and f'Ghfeë^whè' Uref ^ tê ’ddtnihant
over thenyfehër nution^ôfttfchat continents Palias1 informs' us;
that even'intermarriages between Russians^' arid Tartars with
the M o n gO lia^ ^ h ’o: differ widely from' #ofh*'bf thesë/rà'cW'in
Jjieir physîcaFcharàcter; are very frequent in Mongolia.
The children born from thésê-hiariïàîgës 'are thris #escribed
in Pallas’s-Memoir on the Mongolian Nations. jg| Ges ^eh-
fans Ont d’agï'éablës. et quelquefois de supèrb'eë|frgtifçs, tandis
que ceux’;#origine purement Kalmuke ’ou Mbngole' cdn-
servent jusqu’à dix ans une figure difforme'1 e t ’Bouffie, fin
aspect cacochyme, >qu’ enfin la croissance du corps faîtuispa-
roître.i’;*}*
- Similar observations may be made in différent parts of Europe.
The Celtic and Slavonic races' wer'ë not ’»'so ' strongly
marked ih^ their physical1 differerices Tiririi the Germarilor
Teutonic race as many other tribes of mankind; ÿ e tfh erë existed
sotoe physical peculiarities which distinguished’ thesë
nations. It may be observed that, in many instakfeeS; the intermixture
hats produced breeds physically1'',^Superior fo the
majority of either ancestral race. This maÿ *tfé‘ remarked in
somie parts of Ireland : where the Celtic population of that
* Voyages en-Americjue Méridionalexdu don Felix5dé Azara.
-|* Pallas, Mémoire sur les tribus Mongoles. Mém. du Muséum, 1828.*