Half-castes Sentence Examples

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  • The extraordinary ruined fortifications found, and the knowledge of the higher art of war displayed by the Maoris, suggest (what is no doubt the fact) that there was a hard fight for them when they first arrived, but the greatest resistance must have been from the purer Papuan inhabitants, and not from the half-castes who were probably easily overwhelmed.

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  • The population of the archipelago is about 19,000, of whom about 370 are whites or half-castes.

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  • The people of colour in 1906 numbered 53,000, including 2300 Chinese and 6500 Maori half-castes.

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  • An apparent increase of 7000 in the Maori and half-castes between 1891 and 1906 is, perhaps, partly due to more accurate computation.

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  • It seems probable that the number of Maori and half-castes taken together is about the same as it was thirty years ago, though the infusion of white blood is larger.

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  • The first class includes half-castes (who are numerous, for the Dutch are in closer relationship with the natives than is the case with most colonizing peoples), and also Armenians, Japanese, &c. The total number of this class in 1900 was 75, 8 33; 72,019 of these were called Dutch, but 61,022 of them were born in Netherlands India; there were also 1382 Germans, 441 British and 350 Belgians.

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  • The percentage of Spanish blood is greater than in the other Central American republics; but there is also a large population of half-castes (ladinos or mestizos) due to intermarriage with native Indians.

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  • The suburbs, scattered over a large area, consist chiefly of cane huts occupied by Indians and half-castes.

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  • The half-castes settled in the Bass Straits are ministered to by the bishop of Tasmania.

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  • According to Tate the Gadaras are now represented by Sidi half-castes - those Makrani " boys " who are so well known in the mercantile marine as stokers and firemen.

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  • The total includes 105,000 Chinese and 7500 aborigines and half-castes.

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  • The majority of the inhabitants are Indians or half-castes.

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  • The Griquas (or Bastaards) are descendants of Dutch-Hottentot half-castes.

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  • The European half-castes are not prolific inter se, and they are subject to a scrofulous taint.

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  • There are public schools for Europeans and half-castes in the towns, but there is no provision for the education of the children of settlers in the out-districts.

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  • In his absence the "Catherine" was seized and the crew murdered by Portuguese and half-castes, and Thompson himself was later on murdered by natives.

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  • At the census of 1906 they numbered 47,731, as against 45,470 in 1874; and there were 6516 half-castes.

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  • Intermarriage with British, Dutch, and French with Caribs and Creoles has further complicated the ethnology of the country, producing "Indians" with fair hair and blue eyes, and half-castes with European features and Indian or negroid coloration, or with European coloration and Indian or negroid features.

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