PROVISIONAL REPORTS AND NOTICES. 457 
70. Has the number of inhabitants sensibly varied, and 
within what period ? 
71. If it have diminished, state the causes; such as sick- 
ness, starvation, war, and emigration. When these causes re- 
quire explanation, please to give it. If the inhabitants are on 
the increase, is this the result of the easy and favourable cir- 
cumstances of the people causing an excess of births over 
deaths; or is it to be assigned to any cause tending to bring 
accessions from other quarters? State whether such causes 
are of long standing, or recent. 
72. Is the population generally living in a manner to which 
they have been long accustomed, or have new relations with 
other people, and consequently new customs and practices, been 
introduced ? 
73. If the people, being uncivilized, have come under the in- 
fluence of the civilized, state to what people the latter belong, 
how they are regarded, and what is the kind of influence they 
are producing*. State the points of their good influence, if any, 
and those of an opposite character, as the introduction of dis- 
eases, vices, wars, want of independence, &c. 
74. Is there any tendency to the union of races? how is it 
exhibited, and to what extent? 
Social Relations. 
75. What kind of relationship, by written treaty or other- 
wise, subsists between the nation and other nations, civilized or 
not? Have they any intercourse by sea with other countries ? 
Do any of them understand any European Janguage? Or are 
there interpreters, by whom they can communicate with them ? 
76. Are they peaceable, or addicted to war? Have they 
any forms of declaring war, or making peace? What is their 
mode of warfare, either by sea or land? their weapons and 
strategy? What do they do with the slain, and with prisoners? 
Have they any mode of commemorating victories by monuments, 
hieroglyphics, or preservation of individual trophies, and of 
what kind? Have they any national poems, sagas, or tradi- 
tions respecting their origin and history? Where Europeans 
have introduced fire-arms, ascertain the modes of warfare which 
have given place to them. 
State whatever particulars respecting their origin and history 
are derived, either from traditions among themselves or from 
other sources. 
* This question will comprise the existence of missions—the success or the 
want of it from causes connected with missionaries themselves or others. 
