Note 37 — Chapter XXII
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Dr. Von Tschudi makes a similar observation concerning this caste in Peru. He says: “they are the most miserable class of half-castes; with them every vice seems to have attained its utmost development; and it may confidently be said that not one in a thousand of them is a useful member of society, or a good subject of the State. Four-fifths of the criminals in the city jail of Lima are Sambos. Their figures are athletic, and their color black, sometimes tinged with olive-brown. Their noses are not as flat as those of the negroes, but their lips are quite as prominent.”—Travels in Peru, p. 84.