126 CQRtf. — Population. 



A Chinese 350 



Battas , 501 



Chinese 8,751 



Chuliahs 7,886 



Bengalese 



Siamese and Jim ipese 648 



Arabs 142 



Parsees 50 



Native Chnstiairs 708 



Caftrees, f 180 



Totaf, 37,844 



TtVCTUATiNO, 



Native Military and followers, 



averaged at 700 



Convicts.* f . 1,263 



Itinerants , . . 400 



2,363 



Total 40,207 



But it should be kept in mind that a great many 

 of the agricultural class, as before observed, are shop- 

 keepers, trade and otherwise employ themselves be- 

 twixt harvest and seed-time and also occasional I y 

 work as day-labourers. 



The males exceed the females in the whole popuhu 

 tion by about 2,300, which is mainly owing- to the few 

 females amongst the Chinese, where the males are 

 nearly as 5^ to 1 of females, and to the excess also of 

 male9 over females amongst the Chuliahs and Ben*, 

 galees. The sexes are nearly on a par amongst the 

 Malays, the males only exceeding by 112. If the 

 reports of deaths are correct, they have been 404 for 

 the past year, including accidental ones, which have* 



