It is regularly built, on broad streets, and is celebrated for its Sunday-market, to which the Indians and Mestizos of the adjacent country flock in numbers.
Every street in Lima contains one or more cigar shops, in which mestizosand mulattos are busily employed in making cigars.
Even the broad level heights in which no trace of human habitations is discoverable, have been excavated by the mercenary Peruvian mestizos and creoles in search of hidden treasures.
This hatred was so bitterly manifested, that in some provinces all the whites and mestizos were obliged to fly, even though they were the most decided enemies of the Spanish loyalists.
The whites are very thinly scattered over the Sierra; but many of the mestizos are very anxious to be thought white Creoles.
To this general remark, however, the Mestizos form an honorable exception.
In the towns and larger villages, the mestizos are numerous.
The complexion of the Mestizos is usually a clear brown; but in some individuals it has a very dark tinge.
As the profits arising from the chacras usually suffice to provide their owners with a comfortable subsistence, the mestizos pass their lives in idleness and pleasure.
He mentions with surprise the number of Chinese, besides mestizos and natives, who are maintained for the service of the Spanish colony there.
When Malacca falls to the Dutch, many Portuguese andmestizos take refuge at Macasar, where they are well received and form a considerable settlement.
It is not my intention to include the Sangley mestizos here, as they are a different race.
Gentil says that the Filipinos have acquired their laziness from the Spaniards; but if they have learned indolence from the Spaniards, why did not the mestizos learn it also, who are on the contrary so active and industrious?
The Chinese and mestizos do not hurry them, but on the contrary invite them to eat, and keep them in their houses for three or four hours, and sometimes days.
It is to be noted that these patrols, commanders as well as soldiers, are usually native mulattoes, and mestizos from Nueva España.
They will have been already undeceived in this regard, and the insolent and audacious designs of the hostile mestizos and foreigners will have received a heavy blow when they see this city enclosed and defended by land and sea.
Creoles and mestizos are for the most part too idle even to keep sheep, preferring daily to eat chicken.
The natives and mestizos attracted much of my attention at Manila.
The third consists of the principal mestizos and natives, and is in fact that which constitutes the real body of farming proprietors.
That they have done so is proved by the existence of the proportionately very numerous band of mestizos who inhabit the Islands.
Hence it follows, as already observed, that the whole of the interior trade is at present absorbed by the principal natives, the Sangley mestizos of both sexes, and a few Chinese peddlers.
With the Spaniards chocolate takes the place of coffee and tea, and even the mestizos and the well-to-do natives drink a great deal of it.
Some mestizos possess several pieces of ground; but they are seldom connected together, as they generally acquire them as mortgages for sums bearing but a small proportion to their real value.
Through the agricultural system, also, the mestizos and natives secure the work of their countrymen by making these advances, and renewing them before the old ones are paid off.
The latest of all the risings of the mestizos seems to have been the most dangerous, not only to the Spanish power, but to all the European population.
The Sangley mestizos pay double tribute, and the Sangleys contribute at the rate of $6 per head.
Government monopolies rigorously maintained, insolent disregard and neglect of the mestizos and powerful creoles, and the example of the United States, were the chief reasons of the downfall of the American possessions.
The mestizos were supposed to be about fifteen or twenty thousand; they are distinguished as Spanish and Indian mestizos.
When there are two gobernadorcillos in the same village, they each look after their own class, whether Mestizos or natives.
These China shopkeepers have nearly driven all competition, except with each other out of the market,--very few Mestizos or Spaniards being able to live on the small profits which the competition among themselves has reduced them to.
At this school, many of the Creoles and Mestizos of Manilla have shown to the world that they did not want the ability to learn, when they had good masters to instruct them; but good heads and hands are seldom found together.
The mining is entirely executed by native workmen, principally Mestizos from the border lands of Honduras and Nicaragua, where they have been engaged in silver-mining.
The Mestizos are a thriftless, careless people, but I care not here to dilate on their shortcomings.
The Mestizosand the descendants of the Spaniards won't be led by such child's play.
It was still adored in the forest temple by thousands of worshippers, and, unknown as it was to the padres, there were few peons, leperos, or mestizos who had not seen the gem flash on the altar of the god.
One was Antonio Melo, the son of a rich Portuguese of much repute in Macan named Basco Barbosa; and the others were people of the country, that is, mestizos of Portuguese and Chinese blood.
In Malaca, more of the mestizos of Yndia, sons of Portuguese, were shipped, to the number of three hundred men.
The said ship "San Jhosef," had one hundred old Portuguese soldiers, and one hundred others, young mestizos of that land.
These with the mestizos brought from Yndia, made somewhere about five hundred men in the said galleon.
This tribute is the contribution that the Indians and mestizos pay in order to aid in the maintenance of the burdens of the state.
In the towns which are the capitals of the province there is often a gobernadorcillo for mestizos and one for natives.
The minimum age for military service is fixed at fifteen years, and the enlistment of mestizos is discouraged.
You shall receive only those mestizos who are worthy, but shall not open a gateway for this in general.
There are only forty-two mestizos in the province.
The number of mestizos of European descent is trifling compared with those of Chinese origin.
There is a small number of Spaniards--of mestizos many, of whom the larger proportion are sangleys, the descendants of Chinese fathers and native mothers.
It is a most industrious locality; in ancient times was a Chinese colony, and is now occupied by mestizos and their descendants, most of them having a mingling of Chinese blood.
There were several balls at the houses of the more opulent mestizos or Indians, and we joined the joyous assemblies.
That village is densely populated with natives and Chinese mestizos who are in charge of calced religious of St. Augustine.
The village of San Pedro, where Indians, Chinese, and mestizos who work in the surrounding country congregate, has Father Francisco Colin.
The Mexicans, both the nearly white Mestizos and the Indians of pure race, delight in pulque.
The undisguised contempt with which the Indians have been treated for ages by the whites and the mestizos has not been without its effect.
The poorer mestizos and Indians, on the other hand, are still zealous churchmen, and spend their time and money on masses and religious duties so perseveringly that one wishes they had a religion which was of some use to them.
He was the president of the rich guild of mestizos in spite of the protests of many of them, who did not regard him as one of themselves.
He knew how to handle them, not like a lot of cranks and littlemestizos who are spoiling them by paying three or four reals.
Father Alvarez attributed the chief share in it to the mestizos of Chinese and Philippine origin, who form the greater part of the population of Manila and the larger towns.
Like the Tagals and the Visayas, these mestizos are Christians, but they possess the fondness for secret societies of their Chinese fathers.
And if we add to these those who seek their education in Spain and other foreign countries we shall find Malays and mestizos in the first line, and the creoles in the last.
The Chinese mestizos soon grew restive under this priestly government, and aided the progressive Spanish party in Manila.
There are about seventy-five thousand Spanish mestizos and half a million Chinese mestizos.
The Reredos, the prosperous mestizos who were to accommodate her, had a large house within easy distance of the school.
Spain had not been very long gone, and evenmestizos and rich Filipinos had not figured in her social lists.
Some of them have been exiled from Nueba España for crime and are mestizos from that country.
The stock, including that of the ranch party, which Hickey's sharp eyes had discovered, was left in charge of some of Ramon's mestizos at the mesa.
Holy smoke, man, you don't think I'd sit here with my hands folded and let a lot of rascally mestizos wreck my property, do you?
Taking advantage of every bit of cover, the astute mestizos had crept around the stockade till they were in a position exactly behind the defenders.
Chinese mestizos who aspired to enter the royal university.
This was done in 1738 when the mestizos of Santa Cruz brought suit against the Jesuits, because the latter had sought to make the residents of Santa Cruz pay for certain improvements in the parishes of that district.
Some of the mestizos had erected looms for the manufacture of the finer kinds of cotton fabrics, but the Sangleys succeeded in breaking up this enterprise.
Some mestizos alone have a slight smattering of them, and those among the Indians who have received orders know Latin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mestizos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
