Hence they seldom bring their wives with them, and never can be successful colonists in consequence.

It is common for them to have families by native women.

It was particularly gratifying to me, who had been familiar with the stupid prejudice against color, entertained only by those who are themselves becoming tawny, to view the liberality with which people of color were treated by the Portuguese.

Instances, so common in the South, in which half-caste children are abandoned, are here extremely rare.

They are acknowledged at table, and provided for by their fathers as if European.