However, lest an undue inference be drawn from their contrast to the Hottentot, we must remember that the former has encroached upon the latter, and that such transitional populations as existed have been swept away.
Now comes a coloured population—not indigenous, but the descendants of the slaves of the colony. This consists of—
1. Negroes.
2. Malays from the Indian Archipelago.
3. Malagasi from Madagascar.
To which we must add, as of mixed blood, the offspring of—
1. Negroes and Dutch, English, &c.
2. Malays and Dutch, English, &c.
3. Malagasi and Dutch, English, &c.
This seems to be the limit of the intermixture; since, between the Malays and Negroes, &c., there is but little intermarriage. The possible elements, however, of hybridity are numerous, e.g., Griquas and Negroes, Griquas and Malays, Malays and Kaffres, &c.