Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa, A Voyage to South America (1748) on Lima
“The inhabitants of Lima are composed of whites, or Spaniards, Negroes, Indians, Mestizos, and other castes, proceeding from the mixture of all three.”
“The Spanish families are very numerous…[some] sixteen or eighteen thousand whites…”
“The Negroes, Mulattos, and their descendants, form the greater number of the inhabitants; and of these are the greatest part of the mechanics; tho' here the Europeans also follow the same occupations, ... for gain being here the universal passion, the inhabitants pursue it by means of any trade, without regard to its being followed by Mulattos.…”