We had no complaint to make of our own cooks, but we soon discovered that the Indian and mestizo women were far better.
In Venezuela the Indian or mestizo has a much greater dread of the ray or carib fish than of the cayman.
We were off early in the morning with a wizened old mestizoto guide us to the ruins of Xochicalco, which are on this very estate of Temisco.
The Mexican has it to the full, like the Peruvian; doubtless it arises largely from the conditions of caste brought about by the existence of the Mestizo and the Indian.
Owing to the demoralisation of the mestizo and native lawyers by these vile examples, it will be very difficult to break the traditions of venality and to find men worthy to occupy the bench.
All the pawn-shops and gambling-houses belong to the principalMestizo families.
Still, the Creole and Mestizo element were made cautious by the possession of property, and its members cannot be called fighting-men.
The petition was said to have been written by Doroteo Cortes, a mestizo lawyer, but I am told he did not sign it.
Curiously enough, fish cannot be taken by the trawl, for a mestizo got out a trawling steamer with gear, and men to handle it, and after repeated trials in different places, had to give it up as a bad job.
In an alcalde's court, there would be several mestizoor native writers or auxiliaries.
Francisco Roxas, a mestizo ship-owner, Numeriano Adriano, and many other mestizos and natives were shot at the Paseo de la Luneta.
There were several Spanish and Mestizo merchants who dealt in hemp and rice.
Insurrection in Nueva Ecija under Cuesta, a Spanish mestizo educated in Spain, where Queen Isabela had taken notice of him.
A scowl was the only reply, but the big mestizolowered his bow and turned over on his bed of leaves.
He was clothed in a new dignity that put him far above considering such an unworthy opponent as Sicto and he silently cherished the hope that other opportunities to outwit the mestizowould be granted him.
The sulky mestizo took pleasure in provoking the little girl, for was she not Piang's favorite, and was not Piang his enemy?
He was a dark Mestizo named Albino, short and thick, and so near being squint-eyed that at the first glance I thought him a subject for Doctor Cabot to practise on.
In the centre of the plaza was a large fountain, at which women were drawing water, and on one side was a Mestizo family, with two men playing the guitar.
The name Cholo properly means the offspring of a mestizo and an Indian, but it seems to be currently used to describe a peasant with a marked Indian strain.
The white man, or the mestizo of the upper class who considers himself to be white, wears a European cloth coat, and usually for warmth's sake a cloak or overcoat above it; this is the distinctive note of social pretension.
The mestizo in Peru is not palpably inferior in intellect to the Spanish colonial of unmixed blood, but seems to be substantially his equal.
But it is true as a social fact; that is to say, the mestizo deems himself a white, wishes to be a white, tries to live and think as a white, and is practically recognized by others as a white.
In the mixed race (mestizo or mulatto) the white element seems usually to predominate.
Turning suddenly, and detecting the mestizo in his act of deception, he asks laughingly why he should practice such a trick.
This, the rude skin sheiling which shelters the mestizoand mulatto.
Without another word, the taciturn mestizo glides out of the tent, leaving Borlasse alone.
But enough of the retina is uncovered to receive an impression from behind; this showing the mestizo tilting his cup, and spilling its contents among the moss!
Ordering the mestizo to retire, he puts the prisoner through a course of cross-questioning.
All this was told us by some Christians among them, especially by a young mestizo from Malaca who lived among them and knew their language.
The author derives his information from a mestizo and a full-blooded native.
When he officiates, he is generally accompanied by two mestizo [mulâtres] priests.
And if any mestizo women choose to become religious, and take the habit and veil in the monasteries of nuns, they [i.
Unless you give us what we ask," replied a Mestizo insolently.
Almost the only effect this wealth of nature seems to exercise upon the Indian or negro mestizo is to incapacitate him from mastering by any effort of his own the lethargy that preys upon him.
The next day the examination continued; and the answers of one of the old men, "a Mestizo Indian," were judged to be false.
Here, even more than on the coast, the mestizo is ambitious to rank himself on a level with the white, whilst he affects to regard the Indian as an inferior being.
In the larger towns, where the Mestizo portion of the population predominates, these dances are discouraged, and in course of time they will probably be entirely discontinued, though they are scrupulously adhered to by the Indians.
Besides jealousy, suspicion also plays a great part, and this influences the native as well against the mestizo as against the Castilian.
The Spanish and mestizo cavaliers, however, condescend to dance only with mestiza partners, and very seldom invite a pretty native girl to join them.
Impelled by a very common and, perhaps, excusable curiosity, I rode out with some friends one day to witness the execution of a mestizo soldier for murder.
Aguinaldo was a mestizo school teacher when, in 1896, he became leader of the insurrection against Spain.
I was glad to visit also Bishop Brent's orphan school, consisting principally of American-mestizo children.
It is difficult to realize the importance of the mestizo class in the Philippines.
In Manilla, there are one or two of these Mestizo traders whose fortunes amount to more than this; but such occurances are rare, and are seldom heard of.
I have seldom heard of Europeans engaging in this business, for which their nature and habits are much less suitable than those Mestizo capitalists who devote themselves to the traffic.
The houses of the Indian and Mestizo population are for the most part in the outskirts of the business part of the town, those of the richer sort being built of stone, and those of the poorest class being composed of nipa, or attap.
For one thing, it would forestall and frustrate that great immigration of Europeans which South American statesmen are counting on to relieve their countries from mestizo unprogressiveness and misgovernment.
They make steady soldiers, and fight well under white or mestizo leaders, but one seldom hears of a pure Indian accomplishing anything or rising either through war or politics, or in any profession, above the level of his class.
The failure of the South American republics has been due, he declares, to mestizo domination.
This applies to both mestizos and mulattoes, albeit the mestizo (the cross between white and Indian) seems less inferior than the mulatto--the cross between white and black.
The aboriginal Indian blood decidedly predominates in theMestizo castes, whilst the negro and his Mulatto descendants, so common on the coast, are there almost unknown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mestizo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cross; hybrid; mestizo; mongrel; mulatto; mule; octoroon; quadroon; zambo
