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HE term "Creole" in former times used to be strictly limited to the white children of white parents born in the West Indies. In the French islands the signification has never altered, and is rigidly confined to its original meaning.

In the English colonies, however, it is now used currently as a general term for anything West Indian, animate or inanimate, English and negro, animal and vegetable alike. Nay, I have no doubt that, at the present time, even a West Indian cockroach would, had he a voice, loudly proclaim his superiority as a "Creole" cockroach over the rest of his species.