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Creoles

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Creoles 

descendants of European colonists born in the Spanish, Portuguese, and French colonies of America; they are

Table 1. Cresols
IsomerMelting point
(°c)		Boiling point
(°c)		Density at 2OC
(g/cm3)		Refractive index (n020)
o-cresol ............30.8190.81.04651.5453
m-creso ............12.0202.81.03441.5438
p-creso ............34.7201.81.03471.5359

mainly the descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors in Latin America. In the islands of the West Indies and in Brazil they are the descendants of Negro slaves. Russian settlers in Alaska (18th to latter half of the 19th century) referred to the offspring of marriages between Russians and Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts as kreoly.
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Louisiana Creoles fraternized with farmers from Indiana; Kentucky and Tennessee gentlemen and haughty Virginians conversed with trappers and the half-savages of the lakes and butchers from Cincinnati.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
The latter, generally French creoles, live comfortably in cabins and log-huts, well sheltered from the inclemencies of the seasons.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
On these occasions there was a degree of magnificence of the purse about them, and a peculiar propensity to expenditure at the goldsmith's and jeweler's for rings, chains, brooches, necklaces, jeweled watches, and other rich trinkets, partly for their own wear, partly for presents to their female acquaintances; a gorgeous prodigality, such as was often to be noticed in former times in Southern planters and West India creoles, when flush with the profits of their plantations.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
 
 
 
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