Note 5 — Chapter II
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The proportion which the different sexes, castes, and conditions, &c. of the inhabitants of Lima bore to one another in the year 1818, may be learned from the subjoined summary taken from the census of Juan Baso, Oidor.
Summary of Men by Castes. Summary of Men by Wards. Gen. amt. of the whole. Summary of Women by Wards. Summary of Women by Castes.
Secular Spaniards 8406 1st Ward 6841 7975 Ward 1st 9455 Secular Spanish women.
Priests and Friars 1331 2nd Id. 5882 27,545 6090 — 2nd 506 Nuns.
Mestizoes 2660 3rd Id. 6389 7420 — 3rd 3262 Mestiza women.
Indians 1561 4th Id. 3512 26,553 4756 — 4th 1731 Indian women.
Free Negroes and Pardos 4220 Cercado, the higher part of the city so called 259 — 312 Cercado 7715 Black and swarthy free women.
Id. slaves 4705 In wards 4662 — — 3884 Id. slaves.
22,883 27,545 54,098 26,553 26,553
To convey a more particular idea of the different races of people in Lima, as these are divided and subdivided, and change in colour by intermixing with one another, we shall add tables on the subject, given by Dr. Unanue, in his work titled “Observaciones sobre el clima de Lima.”
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.