200 J. H. Lefroy on the Indian Population of British America. 
ein 1820, Harmon, who had lived long among them, stated that 
the number, of all ages, did not exceed 5 ,000 ;' "they have dimin- 
ished since with fearful rapidity, probably faster in that quarter 
than in any other. Mr. McGillivray, in Ross Cox’s Travels, of 
somewhat earlier date, makes the tribes inhabiting the country 
about F'razer’s River, the most populous part of the country, to 
number no more than 1,012 souls, including the ae Nas- 
kotins, Tolkotins, and Atnahs—four tribes. Capt n Wilkes, in 
1840, upon a very careful survey, and doubtless ets much more 
complete and authentic data; than either of the others, makes 
the total population of Oregon and New Caledonia together, 
amount to 19,354 souls, about two-thirds of whom M. Duflot de 
Mofras estimates for Oregon alone. So that on the whole, I con- 
sider that 2,000 for the interior of New Caledonia, (Oregon no 
longer being British territory,) is an ample allowance. 
We have also to include the large Islands of Quadra or Van- 
couver’s, and Queen Charlotte, together with the seaboard of that 
region. The population of the former has been estimated “ 
from 10,000 to 20,000, and that of shal latter at from 7,000 t 
0,000. 
ae the kindness of Mr, Kane, whose labors as an artist in the 
least known parts of this continent, have yet to be fully appre- 
ciated, 1am enabled to present an abstract of a very full census 
of Indian tribes inhabiting the northwest coast, which he pro- 
cured in 1847. If it can claim anything like the general accu- 
racy and eset of his pictures of Indian life, we need not 
hesitate to adopt it 
TABLE [IL 
ja ADULTS. (_CHILDREN. Fa 3 
| COMMON DESIGNATION AMONG THE TRADERS, FE ta oi Oita Bae? 
‘ex | Men. |Wom. | Boys. Girls.| | 
Wass Indians* | 4| 648] 488) 314] 308} 12) 82 
himseyans 10; 737} 778! 465) 466) 68) 257 
keena Indians 3) 481 2} 64 9} 0 
Ba ; 5} 474) 407): 243) 194] 111 
Milbank Sound Indians}. 9} 1007] 961] 304] 462] 47) 122 
cat, ket 7} 1249} 961) 469] 418) 479 
Stekene Indians$ 8} 562} 410) 240] 190] 144! 59 
Port Stuart} ..... 3} 180] 185; 141} 157| 15) 37 
Kygarney@ .. ..| 6| 481] 454] 414) 436 111 
Queen Charlot tte Sound** 2.02... IER 6| 1029) 1035, 962} 1003 257 
bout Queen Charlotte weioyerid +e seees 25} 7370} 8890) 9949114911472) 735 
Cape Soot ah and vicinity .. | 4| 730} 875| 1290) 1290) 210) 74 
Totals, Wiveceel [|14443/15466 14972 16474'2558,1724 
* Trade at Fort Simpson, Vancouver's Island, and generally reside in its vicinity. 
+ Trade at Fort i 
t Trade at Sit d 
Trade einai at Stikene, bf ons. anediens: Fort Simpson, 
Trade generally at Fi 
ne prequent Ft. ys os Stikene, faa and §) 
Frequent Fort Simpson. Hl sot Fort McLaughlin. 
