Tiedemann adopted the common error of grouping together, under the term Caucasian,
all the White races (Egyptians, Hindoos, &c.) ; no less than all the African dark races under
the unscientific term of Negroes. Now, I have shown, that the Egyptians and Hindoos possess
about twelve cubic inches less brain than the Teutonic race ; and the Hottentots about
eight inches less than the Negro proper. I affirm that no reason can be assigned why the
Hottentot and Negro should be classed together in their cranial measurements ; nor the
Teuton with the Hindoo. I can discover no data by which to assign a greater age to one
type than to another; and, unless Professor Tiedemann can overcome this difficulty, he
has no right to assume identity for all the races he is pleased to include in each of his
groups. Mummies from catacombs Qf Egypt, and portraits from the monuments, exhibit
the same disparity of size in the heads of races who lived 4000 years ago, as among any
human species at the presehi day.
As Dr. Morton tabulated his skulls on a somewhat arbitrary basis, I
abandon that arrangement, and present his facts as they stand in
nature, allowing the reader to compare for himself.
Size of the Brain in Cubic Inches.
Absolute measurements
array themselves into a
sliding scale of seventeen
cubic inches, between the
lowest and the highes t
races., Here we behold
cranial measurements 3s
history and the monuments
first find them; nor can
such facts be controverted.
Let me again revert to
the question of hybridity,
in connection with endeavors
to obtain accurate cranial
statistics. The adulteration
of primitive types,
at the present day conspicuous
ra;c e s . 1. 0.
Mean.
I.O.
Mean.
Modem White Races ;
Teutonic Group......................... 92 92
Pelasgic....................................... 84 Ì
Celtic ............... ......................... 87 1-88
89 i ■ .
Ancient Pelasgic....................... 88
Malays........................................... 85 Chinese........................................... 82 1 834
Negroes (African)............... ...j.. 83
Indostanees.................................... 80
Fellahs (Modern Egyptians)....... 80
Egyptians (Ancient)..................... 80
American Croup;
Toltecan Family............... ....... 77 *
Barbarous Tribes............... . 84 i
Hottentots...................................... 75 ^75 ’ Australians.................................... 75 $
among many races of mankind, renders precision, in regard to
the commingled inhabitants of various countries, frequently impossible
; especially wherever the AwAskinned races of Europe, and the
lower grades of humanity elsewhere, have co-operated in mutual contaminations.
Of the latter, our own continent supplies two deplorable
regions, from which real philanthropy might take warning. Tschudi’s
“ Travels in Peru ” furnishes a list of the crosses resulting from the
intermixture of Spanish with Indian and ISTegro races in that country.
The settlement of Mexico by Spaniards took place at the same time,
and the intermixture of races has been perhaps greater there than in
Peruvian colonies. Mexican soldiers present the most unequal char-
I acters that can be met with anywhere in the world. If some are
brave others are quite the r e v e r s e — possessing the basest and most
barbarous qualities. This, doubtless, is a result, in part, of the crossings
of the races. Here is Tschudi’s catalogue of such amalgamations
in Peru: —
Parents. Ulularen.
a white father and Negro mother........................ Mulatto.
White father and Indian mother....................... Mestiza.
Indian father and Negro mother........................ Chino.
White father and Mulatto mother..................... Cuarterón.
White father and Mestiza mother..................... C r eo le -p a le , brownish complexion.
White father and China mother......................... Chino-blanco.
White father and Cuarterena mother... Quintero.
White father and Quintera mother.................... White.
Negro father and Indian mother...................... Zambo.
Negro father and Mulatto mother.................... Zambo-Negro.
Negro father and Mestiza mother.................... Mulatto-oscuro.
Negro father and China mother...................... Zambo-Chino.
Negro father and Zamba mother..................... Zambo-Negro-p e r fe c tly black.
Negro father and Quintera mother.................. Mulatto rather dark.
Indian father and Mulatto mother.................... Chino-oscuro. ,
Indian father and Mestiza mother Mestizo-claro - frequently very beautiful.
Indian father and Chino mother........................ Chino-cola.
Indian father and Zamba mother !......... Zambo-claro.
Indian father and China-cholar mother Indian — with frizzly hair.
Indian father and Quintera mother.................. M e s t i z o — rather brown.
Mulatto father and Zamba mother.................... Zamba — a miserable race.
Mulatto father and Mestiza mother................. Chino—rather clear complexion.
Mulatto father and China mother..................... Chino — rather dark.
“ To define their characteristics correctly,” adds the learned German, would be impos
sible; for their minds partake of the mixture of their blood. As a general rule, it may be
fairly said, that they unite in themselves all the faults, without any of the virtues, of them
progenitors; as men, they are generally inferior to the pure races; and as members of
society, they are the worst class of citizens.”
In Peru, be it also observed, these mongrel families are produced by the intermixture
of two distinct types (Indians and Negron) with a third (Portuguese and Spaniards), which
I have shown to have been already corrupted by European comminglings, previously to
their landing in South America. After all, in the United States, the bulk of mulatto grades
is occasioned solely by the union of Negro with the Teutonic stock Indian am gama ons
being so nnfrequent as to be rarely seen, save along the frontier. .
This leads me to substantiate previous remarks on Liberia. “ Gov. Roberts, of Liberia,
a fair mulatto, and Russwarm, of Cape Palmas, are clever and estimable men; an we
have in these two men unanswerable proofs of the capacity of the colored peop e or se
government. — . ' . ,
“ The climate of Western Africa cannot be considered as unwholesome to colored coloms s.
Every one must pass [owing to the unacclimated exotic blood in his veins\ through the acc a
ing fever; but, now that more convenient dwellings are erected, so that the sick may e
properly attended to, the mortality has considerably decreased. Once well through this
sickness, the [mulatto] colonist finds the climate and the air suitable to his constitu ion no
so the w h i t e man. The residence of a few years on this coast is certain death
So far Commodore M. C. Perry, U. S. N., in his report on Liberia. Miss Eredenka