+----------------------+------------+---------+----------------------+ | Intermarriages. | Offspring. | Colour. | Mixture. | +---------+------------+------------+---------+----------------------+ | Men. | Women. | | | | +---------+------------+------------+---------+----------------------+ |European | European | Creole | White | — | |Creole | Creole | Creole | White | — | |White | Indian | Mestizoe | White | — | |White | Mestiza | Creole | White | — | |White | Negress | Mulatto | — | 1/2 negro, 1/2 white.| |White | Mulatta | Quarteron | — | 1/4 negro, 3/4 white.| |White | Quarterona | Quinteron | — | 1/8 negro, 7/8 white.| |White | Quinterona | White | — | — | |Negro | Indian | Chino | — | — | +---------+------------+------------+---------+----------------------+ The same author gives the following as the retrograde intermarriages, by which the offspring are of a more dingy appearance, and made to recede more and more from white, which he takes as the standard primitive colour. Marriages. Offspring. Colour. Negro, Negress, Negro. Negro, Mulatta, Zambo, 3/4 negro, 1/4 white. Negro, Zamba, Dark Zambo, 7/8 negro, 1/8 white. Negro, Dark Zambo, Negro, 15/16 negro, 1/16 white. Negro, China, Zambo. [6] This idea is not founded on experience; for that the Indian women are really good nurses is proved by the fact, that the offspring of European fathers and Indian mothers,—viz. the Mestizo race,—are very robust. [7] See Appendix, Art. Ecclesiastical Jubilee. [8] This dress, peculiarly characteristic of Lima, is little known in other parts of the country, if we except Truxillo. Captain Basil Hall in his Journal, vol. i. p. 106, describes it very correctly. “This dress,” says he, “consists of two parts, one called the saya, the other the manto. The first is a petticoat, made to fit so tightly, that, being at the same time quite elastic, the form of the limbs is rendered distinctly visible. The manto, or cloak, is also a petticoat; but, instead of hanging about the heels, as all honest petticoats ought to do, it is drawn over the head, breast, and face; and is kept so close by the hands, which it also conceals, that no part of the body, except one eye, and sometimes only a small portion of one eye, is perceptible.”