APPENDIX.

APPENDIX A.-Vol. ii. p. 347.

QUERIES CIRCULATED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A VIEW TO OBTAIN ACCURATE INFORMATION ON THE RESULTS OF THE ADMIXTURE OF RACES IN THE NEW WORLD.

INDIAN HALF-BREEDS.

1. What is the number of the half-breed Indians? and from what tribe, or tribes, are they chiefly or wholly derived by their Indian parentage?

2. In what respects do the half-breed Indians differ from the pure Indians, as to habits of life, courage, strength, increase of numbers, etc.?

3. Do marriages ever take place between an Indian husband and white wife? If so, does the offspring differ in any noticeable degree from that of a white husband and Indian wife?

4. Is any difference discernible in half-breeds descended on the one side from French, and those on one side from British parentage? If so, what is the difference?

CIVILIZED INDIAN HALF-BLOOD.

1. What is the number of the settled population, either halfbreed, or more or less of Indian blood?

2. What Indian characteristics, physical and mental, are longest traceable in successive descendants of Indian and white

blood? e.g., hair, form of head, of mouth, of cheek bones, colour and character of eyes, and any other features?

3. Are those of partial Indian blood liable to any diseases which do not affect the whites or the pure Indians? Or,

Are they more or less liable to such diseases?

4. Are the families descended from mixed parentage noticeably larger or smaller than those of whites or of Indians?

5. State any facts tending to prove or disprove, that the offspring descended from mixed white and Indian blood fails in a few generations.

APPENDIX B-Vol. ii. pp. 354, 418.

ETHNOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE: AMERICAN HALF-CASTES.

IN all the departments of ethnology, the want of a generally recognised terminology is a serious impediment. Such words as race, stock, family, etc., are excluded, because their use in any strictly defined sense involves the affirmation of opinions most keenly disputed; and nearly the same objection lies against the adoption of such scientific terms of natural history as order, class, species, etc. In relation to hybridity, however somewhat has been already done by means of popular designations of the more noticeable varieties of mixed blood. Dr. Tschudi, after noticing the diverse characteristics of the pureblood population of European, Asiatic, African, and American descent to be met with in Peru, gives a list of the very varied degrees of mixed blood, with the names by which they are there designated. Of the term Creole, he observes, “The designation properly belongs to all the natives of America born of parents who have emigrated from the Old World." The children of pure-blood African parents are accordingly Creoles, as much as those of unmixed European blood. The Spaniards do not even limit the term Criollo to the human race, but apply it to all animals propagated in America of pure European parentage. They have, accordingly, Creole horses, bullocks, asses, poultry, etc.

Father.

White,

White,

Indian,

White,

White,

The following is Dr. Tschudi's list of half-castes, with a few additions from other sources :—

White,

White,

White,

Negro, N.A.,

Negro, S.A.,

Negro,

Negro,

Negro,

Negro,

Negro,

Negro,

Indian,

Indian,

Indian,

Indian,

Indian,

Indian,

Indian,

Mulatto,

Mulatto,

Mulatto,

The above deals with the results of hybridity with considerable minuteness. Nevertheless, it makes no distinction between Spanish, Portuguese, and English blood, and only once discriminates among the equally strongly marked diversities of red and black blood. But we want a no less comprehensive series of distinctive names to indicate the offspring of intrusive races of pure blood. Lieber suggests the term Europidian for the American of pure European descent; but something much more minute is required to supply the want of definite terms. constantly felt. The following suggests a series of terms,

including some already in use, which admits of indefinite extension::

:

Europidian of parents of European origin, born in any other quarter of the globe.

Euromerican of parents of European origin born in America.

:

Eurasian,

Asia.

Africa.

Eurafrican,
Euraustralian,

Australia.

Eurindian,

India.

Euro-asian,

Euro-african,
Euro-chinese,

Euro-hindoo,

Etc. etc.

Anglo-Canadian,

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Gallo-Canadian, or Habitant,

Anglo-Australian.

Anglo-Indian, etc., etc.

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Anglo-American of parents born in America of English descent. Gallo-American,

French

Euro-american: of mixed European and Indian blood.

Asiatic

Yankee, popularly applied by foreigners to the people of the United States, properly signifies a New Englander; but its generic use originates in the confusion created by their appropriation of the term American, which has a totally distinct ethnological significance, while the equally vague name of Statesman is already preoccupied; and those of Federal and Confederate are as yet mere party names.

There is still wanted a further nomenclature for the descendants of mixed blood, resulting from this recolonization of the world by the European stock; but as it is intimately blended with the foregoing, it may be best met by a less amalgamate modification of the same terms, e.g.

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Canada of English
French

APPENDIX C.--Vol. ii. p. 399.

QUERIES ON COLOURED POPULATION IN CANADA.

1. What is the number of coloured population in the district?

2. What proportion of the coloured people are of pure African blood?

3. Is there any difference in the liability to disease, or in the special diseases, between the coloured and white population, either in infancy or throughout life?

4. Are there any diseases the coloured people are liable to from which the whites are exempt; or exempt which the whites are liable to? Or,

Are there any diseases more or less fatal to them than to the whites?

5. Are the families of coloured parents noticeably larger or smaller than those of whites?

6. State any facts tending to prove or disprove that the offspring descended from coloured parents fails in a few generations.

7. Does the climate of Canada effect any change on coloured emigrants from the States? If so, in what respects?

APPENDIX D.-Vol. ii. p. 403.

EMIGRATION TO HAYTI: CIRCULAR.

To the Blacks, Men of Colour, and Indians in the United States and the British North American Provinces :—

FRIENDS, I am authorized and instructed by the Government of the Republic to offer you, individually and by communities, a welcome, a home, and a free homestead in Hayti.

Such of you as are unable to pay for your passage will be provided with the means of defraying it.

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