The half-castes, the Liby-Phoenicians, seem to have been sometimes sent out as colonists; but it may be inferred, from what Diodorus says of their residence, that they had not the right of the citizenship of Carthage; and only a single solitary case occurs of one of this race being intrusted with authority, and that, too, not emanating from the home government.

Each was inclined to raid on the other since the Mambari and Portuguese half-castes had appeared with Manchester goods.

The native Indians pay a capitation tax of $1 a head; half-castes double; Chinese $50, $30, or $12.

Gave the Duke the petition of the Bengal half-castes.

Office at 2. Looked over regulations, &c., relative to the half-castes and considered their question.

He is decidedly against the employment of half-castes.

By-the-bye, Wortley did very well last night in not allowing Wynne to lead him into a speech on the half-castes.

"Your first question, with respect to the Spanish population, must refer to native Spaniards only; as their numerous descendants, through all the variety of half-castes, would include one third at least of the whole population of Luconia (i.e., LuzonA. C.) "Of native Spaniards, accordingly, settled in the Philippine Islands, the total number may be stated at 2,000 not military.

Mustering his forces in the Fort, Renault found them to be composed of 237 soldiers (of whom 117 were deserters from the British), 120 sailors, 70 half-castes and private Europeans, 100 persons employed by the Company, 167 Sepoys and 100 Topasses.

The Topasses were Portuguese half-castes, generally employed, even by native princes, as gunners.]

It was this union of force which gave us Bengal in the time of which I have been writing, and to the same source of power we owe the gradual building up of the great Empire which now dominates the whole of India. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 122: Probably Portuguese half-castes.]

The dour Llewellyn, the handsome Landers, the boastful McHenry, Lying Bill, David, the young American vanilla-shipper, Bemis, an American cocoanut-buyer, the half-castes of the orchestra, and servants, filled three roomy carryalls.

[South Africa.]The instances are very numerous in South Africa where the Boers and half-castes amuse themselves with rearing zebras, antelopes, and the like; but I have not found many instances among the native races.

But, magnificent and euphonious as an earldom is, the children of an earl are the half-castes of the peerage.

Moussa Isa was again the slave of an ivory-poaching, hide-poaching, specimen-poaching, slave-dealing gang of Arabs, Negroes, and Portuguese half-castes, led by a white man of the Teutonic persuasion.

Were these letters penned by natives or by half-castes, with foreign blood in their veins and inherited capacities of feeling?

Where a wish to please is evinced, though wholly unattended by efficiency in the duties undertaken by a servant, I can very easily excuse awkwardness, forgetfulness, or any other fault; but the wretched half-castes, who take service on board the Government steamers, have not even common civility to recommend them; there was not a passenger in the vessel who did not complain of the insults to which all were more or less subjected.

The young half-castes I saw were very interesting, having a ruddy dark complexion, with fine eyes and teeth.

The aboriginal Negritoes are now few; half-castes are numerous; the population is chiefly Malayan, Roman Catholic at least nominally in religion, and speaking the Tagal or the Visayan language.

The majority of those who have provided themselves with houses by the river and fronting on the street most approved, looking out through groves and gardens, are Chinese half-castes, claiming Chinese fathers and Philippine mothers.

They might register as landowners, and vote with the white electors, but as a matter of fact not many did so, and after a foolish and unfair delay of fifteen years they were given four members solely chosen by Maoris, and who must themselves be Maoris or half-castes.

They were perhaps, seventy thousand when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed; they and the half-castes can scarcely muster forty-three thousand now.

Of these the browns are made up of about 37,000 Maoris and 5,800 half-castes.

The Maoris seem slowly decreasing, the half-castes increasing rather rapidly.

Hadfield, the Missionary, 153. Hall and Atkinson, 337, 342-344, 345. Half-castes, 398. Hau-Hau defeat at Moutua, 287. outrages, 286, 295, 301. Hau-Haus finally crushed, 303. Hawaiki, 37.