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TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



NOTES TO CHAPTER I. 

 Note 1. 



Population of Minas Geraes^ in the Year 1808. * 



COLOURS. 



rREE PEOPLE. 



SLAVES. 



TOTAL. 



Males. 



Females 



Total. 



Males. 



Females 



Total. 





54,157 

 64,406 

 23,286 



52,527 

 65,250 

 24,651 



106,684 

 129,656 

 47,957 



7,857 

 86,849 



7,880 

 46,186 



15,737 

 133,035 



106,684 

 145,393 

 180,972 



141,849 



142,428 



284,277 



94,706 



54,066 



148,772 



433,049 



By a late though not authenticated statement, for the com- 

 munication of which we are indebted to Marshal Felisberto 

 Caldeira Brant Pontes, of Bahia, there were reckoned in 

 Minas Geraes, in the year 1820, 4^56,675 free, and 165,210 

 slaves; in all 621,885 inhabitants. The comarca of Oiro 

 Preto or Villa Rica, contained, according to Mr. Von Esch- 

 wege {loc, cit,\ in the year 1813, 72,209 inhabitants, though, 

 according to a list quoted by him, it had, in 1776, 78,618, 

 that is 6,409 more. Mr. Von Eschwege justly considers 

 the decrease of the gold- washing, and the consequent di- 

 minution in the number of negro slaves imported, as the 

 cause of this circumstance ; which, however, must not be 

 understood of the whole of Minas Geraes, as the comarca 



* According to Mr. Von Eschwege's Journal of Brazil, vol. i. 

 p. 209. 



