JANUARY 15.
The offspring of a white man and black woman is a mulatto;
the mulatto, and black produce a sambo; from the mulatto and
white comes the quadroon; from the quadroon and white the
mustee ; the child of a mustee by a white man is called a
mustee - fino ; and the children of a musteefinio are free by law, and
rank as white persons to all intents and purposes. I think it is
Long who asserts, that two mulattoes will never have children ;
but, as far as the most positive assurances can go, since my arrival in
Jamaica, I have reason to
believe the contrary, and that
mulattoes breed together just as well as blacks and whites; but
they are almost universally weak and effeminate persons, and
thus their children are very difficult to rear. On a sugar-estate
one black is considered as more than equal to two mulattoes.
Beautiful as are their forms in general, and easy and graceful as
are their movements (which, indeed, appear to me so striking
that they cannot fail to excite the admiration of any one who has
ever looked with delight on statues), still the women of colour
are deficient in one of the most requisite points of female beauty.
Young or old, I have not yet seen such a thing as a bosom.
