194 



humboldt's cttba. 



Males. 



Females. 



Whites, 54,555 

 Free colored, 15,980 

 Slaves, 28,774 



40,864 

 14,635 

 15,562 



Total, 



99,309 



71,061 



In all, 170,370, of which the district of Havana 

 alone contained 75,607. I cannot answer for the 

 correctness of this table, for I have not seen the 

 official documents. 



The census of 1791 gave 272,141 inhabitants., of 

 which 137,800 were in the district of Havana, as fol- 

 lows : 44,337 in the capital, 27,715 in the other towns 

 and villages of the district, and 65,748 in the country 

 Particlos. These figures have been compared with the 

 registers. A moment's reflection will demonstrate the 

 contradictory nature of these results. The mass of 

 137,800 inhabitants in the district of Havana, are stated 

 as follows ; whites, 73,000, free colored, 27,600, slaves, 

 37,200 ; so that the whites would bear a proportion 

 to the slaves of 2 to 1, instead of that of 100 to 83, 

 which has long since been found to be the relative 

 proportions, both in the city and in the country. 



In 1804 I discussed the census of Don Luis de las 

 Casas, with persons who possessed great knowledge 

 of the locality. Examining the proportions of the 

 numbers omitted in the partial comparisons, it 

 seemed to us that the population of the island, in 



