[Sp.: see SAMBO.]
I. = SAMBO 1.
1819. Hel. M. Williams, trans. A. von Humboldt’s Pers. Narr., IV. 430. He was … of a dark brown complexion like a Zambo.
1851. Mayne Reid, Rifle Rangers, xi. (1853), 72. In the sparse settlements of the country [sc. Mexico] you meet with a strange race—the cross of the negro with the ancient inhabitants of the country—the ‘zamboes.’
1896. W. E. Curtis, Venezuela, xii. 159. The zambos, the offspring of the imported negro and the native Indian stock.
2. A species of American monkey.
1851. Mayne Reid, Rifle Rangers, i. (1853), 11. The ferocious zambo fills the woods with its hideous half-human voice. Ibid., 350. The ‘zambo’ monkey is one of the largest and fiercest of the family of quadrumana.
