The Wyandots have promised to dissolve their organization as a tribe, and to become citizens of the United States, as soon as they shall have received the lands promised them. They are intelligent and honest. The Shawnees bid fair to be one of the richest inhabitants in Kansas. This is still the only acceptance of the term in the West Indies. A Mulatto, is the offspring of a white and Negro, a Quadroon, of a white and a Mulatto, being on quarter black, a Mustee of a white and a Quadroon, or one eighth black, and a Mustafina, of a white and a Mustee, being one sixteenth black.
Terms implying a much less admixture of black blood are prevalent in Cuba.
Creole simply implies a white native of those tropical climates. The Sacs and Foxes on the Mississippi think only of war, and despise the arts of peace. They are intemperate, quarrelsome and aggressive, and are fast diminishing in number. The savages who infest the Santa Fe road, and the other routes to New Mexico, are as dangerous and incorrigible. The Camanchees, who pass the winter South of the Arkansas river, and hunt buffalo during the spring and summer, continue to disturb and commit depredations upon the frontiers of Texas.