mameluca

Updated: May 27, 2025

The owner of the house was not at home, and the wife, a buxom young woman, a dark mameluca, with clear though dark complexion and fine rosy cheeks, was preparing, in company with another stout- built Amazon, her rod and lines to go out fishing for the day's dinner.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons

The other hunting trip which I have alluded to was undertaken in company with three friendly young half-castes. The other was Jose Frazao, a nephew of Senor Chrysostomo, of Ega, an active, clever, and manly young fellow, whom I much esteemed. He was almost a white his father being a Portuguese and his mother a Mameluca.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons