Mulatto-oscuro.
Negro father and China mother Zambo-chino.
Negro father and Zamba mother Zambo & Negro (perfectly
black.)
Negro father and Quarterona mother dark Mulatto.
Negro father and Quintera mother dark Mulatto.

4. CASTES OF INDIAN RACE.
Indian father and Negro mother Chino.
Indian father and Mulatta mother Chino-oscuro.
Indian father and Mestiza mother Mestizo-claro (often very
beautiful.)
Indian father and China mother Chino-cholo.
Indian father and Zamba mother Zambo-claro.
Indian father and China-chola mother Indian (with short, frizzly
hair.)
Indian father and Quarterona mother brown Meztizo.
Indian father and Quintera mother brown Meztizo.

5. MULATTO CORRUPTIONS.
Mulatto father and Zamba mother Zambo (a miserable race.)
Mulatto father and Zamba mother Chino (rather clear race.)
Mulatto father and China mother Chino (rather dark.)

Besides these specified castes there are many others not distinguished
by particular names. The best criterion for judging is the hair of the
women which is infinitely less deceiving than the complexion. The short
woolly hair, or the coarse Indian locks may always be detected on the
head or back of the neck. This tabular statement exhibits at a glance
the mongrel corruptions of the human race in Spanish America, and forms
an interesting subject for students of physiology. See Tschudi's Peru,
p. 80, Am. Ed.

[5] Preface to 3d Ed. of Mexico as it was and as it is, p. 12.

[6] Zavala's "Revoluciones de Mexico," vol. 1. p. 15, gives an account
of the manner in which estates are divided in Mexico.

[7] See Mexico as it was and as it is, p. 301.

[8] _Corral_ signifies cattle yard; _hacienda_, plantation; _rancho_,
small farm.

[9] _The lasso_ is a long rope, with a running noose at the end of it.
The Mexicans learn to fling this with great accuracy so as to catch a
bull, a horse, or a man with equal facility. All classes have some skill
in the use of this weapon, and I have seen children, with cords,
attempting to _lasso_ chickens and even butterflies!

[10] See Head's Rough Notes of a Journey over the Pampas. The Mexican
ranchero is somewhat superior to the _gaucho