The majority is East Indian; then mongrels; then negroes (descendants of the slaves of the French times); then French; then English.

There was an American, but he is dead or mislaid.

The mongrels are the result of all kinds of mixtures; black and white, mulatto and white, quadroon and white, octoroon and white.

And so there is every shade of complexion; ebony, old mahogany, horsechestnut, sorrel, molasses-candy, clouded amber, clear amber, old-ivory white, new-ivory white, fish-belly white--this latter the leprous complexion frequent with the Anglo-Saxon long resident in tropical climates.
"You wouldn't expect a person to be proud of being a Mauritian, now would you?
But it is so.

The most of them have never been out of the island, and haven't read much or studied much, and they think the world consists of three principal countries--Judaea, France, and Mauritius; so they are very proud of belonging to one of the three grand divisions of the globe.