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whom, unfortunately, there are only one-third of the 

 females required by the number of males, 1 decrease 

 more than eight per cent., annually. 



We have already seen 2 that in Havana and sub- 

 urbs, the whites increased 73 per cent., and the free 

 colored 171 per cent., in twenty years. Through 

 nearly all the eastern part of the island, the same 

 classes have nearly doubled in the same time. We 

 will here mention that the free colored multiply, in 

 part, through the transition from one class to the 

 other, and the slaves increase through the activity 

 of the slave-trade. At the present time, the whites 

 receive but little increase through immigration from 

 Europe, the Canary Islands, the Antilles, or the Con- 

 tinent; this class multiplies within itself, for patents 

 of white blood are seldom granted by the tribunals to 

 persons of light yellow color. 



According to the census of 1775, the district of 

 Havana, comprising six cities (the capital, Trinidad, 

 San Felipe y Santiago, Santa Maria del Rosario, 

 Jaruco, and Matanzas), six towns (Guanabacoa, Santi 

 Espiritu, Yilla Clara, San Antonio, San Juan de los 

 Remedios, and Santiago), and thirty villages and 

 hamlets, contained a population of 171,626 ; and in 



1 This applies only to those slaves employed on the sugar planta- 

 tions. 



2 Chapter I., p. 114. 



