930 Queries respecting the Human Race. [No. 155. 



70. Has the number of inhabitants sensibly varied, and within 

 what period ? 



71. If it have diminished, state the causes ; such as sickness, 

 starvation, war, and emigration. When these causes require ex- 

 planation, please to give it. If the inhabitants are on the in- 

 crease, is this the result of the easy and favourable circumstances 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 influence 

 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 diseases, vices, wars, want of indepen- 

 dence, &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 otherwise, sub- 

 sists 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 language ? 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 comme- 

 morating victories by monuments, hieroglyphics, or preservation of in- 

 dividual trophies, aqd of what kind ? Have they any national poems, 

 sagas, or traditions respecting their origin and history ? Where Euro- 



* This question will comprise the existence of missions— the success or the want of 

 it from causes connected with missionaries themselves or others. 



