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fore allowing 100,000 fouls to both ifles, we rather ' think our popula 

 eftimate to fall ihort of the true population. 



TION. 



If we take the fum 

 of thefe num* 



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bers, we find the 

 whole of the in- 



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habitants of the 



iiles 



in 



the 



South Sea 



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150,000 O-Tahaitee and Imeo, 



200,000 Society Iiles. 



100,000 Marquefas and Low Ifles» 



200,000 Friendly Iiles. 



200,000 New Hebrides. 



50,000 New Caledonia, 



100,000 New Zeeland. 





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Amounting to 1,000,000* 



The population in Tierra del Fuego is fo thin, and they live in 



fo fmall trib 



js, or rather families, that I can hardly believe they 

 exceed in all, two thoufand individuals, fcattered over a furface of 



land 



containing at leail 



as 



much as would form the half of 



Ireland. 



This account of the populat 



of the iiles we viiited, in the 



South Seas, I. will now conclude with the two following 



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remarks. 



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Firil;, I do not pretend that my eflimate of the numbers of the 

 inhabitants is perfedly accurate j at befl it is but a guefs approach- 



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truth as the data which we had opportunities of 



ing 



near to 



colled^tins; would 



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