156 POPULATION. 



Hottentots 



Apprentices 



Slaves 



Males .... 14,291 



Females . . . 14,544 



Males .... 918 



Females ... 451 



Males . . . . 19,164 



Females . . . 13,024 



Total 110,370 



But including the garrison, and 3533 new settlers, 

 the total population, in 1822, was about 120,000 souls, 



Indian Population of Spanish America. 



M. de Humboldt disputes the assumed fact of the 

 destruction or diminution of the Indians in the Spa- 

 nish American colonies. There still exists, he says, 

 in the two Americas, a coloured population of six 

 millions ; and although a great many tribes and lan- 

 guages have been extinguished or confounded, the 

 total number of Indians has not greatly diminished 

 since the discovery of America. 



Brazil Population, 1820. 



3-5ths Negroes and their descendants 1,800,000 

 l-5th Whites, Creoles, &c. . . . . 600,000 

 l-5th Indians 600,000 



3,000,000 



City of Rio de Janeiro, 135,000, including 

 105,000 Negroes. 



Buenos Ayres, 1820. 



Population of the provinces of Rio de la Plata, 

 consisting of Buenos Ayres, Santa Fe, Entre Rios, 

 Cordova, Mendoza, St. Juan, Punta de St. Luis, St. 

 Jagodel Estevo, Tucuman, and Salta, 457,000 souls. 



City of Buenos Ayres, 60,000. 



