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FASCICULI MALATENSES 
Population of Monthon Nakon Sri Thamarat (JLigor Circle). 
‘The following figures are from the census, and may, therefore, be taken as 
accurate : — 
Province 
Siamese 
Chinese 
Malays 
Total 
Ligor (Nakon Sri Thamarat) ... 
I 3°>°34 
3 2 ,439 
32,580 
05,053 
Senggora 
78,307 
3D323 
I 5,662 
1 25,292 
Patalung 
45,635 
3,563 
5,563 
54,76i 
Division of the Seven Provinces . 
39,563 
19,780 
138,466 
197,809 
The following figures for Kelantan and Trengganu are only approximate, 
as no census has been taken : — 
Kelantan has about 250,000 inhabitants, of whom about 20,000 are Siamese, 
15,000 Chinese, and the rest Malays. 
Trengganu has about 120,000 inhabitants, of whom very few are Siamese; 
there are about 1,000 Chinese, and the rest are Malays.’ 
There are no Europeans, and few Indians or Arabs, resident in the Patani 
States, Senggora, or Patalung. 
2. The modern state of Patani, or, as the Siamese call it, Tani, is a small 
strip of territory, with a coast line less than ten miles long and a length of 
rather over twenty miles, the northern part of which extends on both sides of 
the Patani River, while the southern half is bounded by it to the west. 
Except in the immediate vicinity of the coast, where the soil is sandy and 
barren and supports large open woods of casuarina trees, the country is well 
cultivated, under artificial irrigation, and supports a population probably as 
dense as that of any part of the Malay Peninsula which is not occupied by 
tin miners. There is little or no old jungle left in the state. 
3. Patani town , locally known as Kuala Bukar, is the most important 
place in the Division of the Seven Provinces, both as the seat of government 
and as the only port with a reasonably safe anchorage between Kuala Kelantan 
and Senggora. Patani Roads, indeed, enjoyed considerable reputation among 
the old voyagers, and formed a nucleus for the trade of ‘Further India’ in the 
seventeenth century, at which date there was a factory of the East India 
Company at Patani ; but nowadays, at any rate, anchorage is only possible in 
them from March to October, and they are so shallow that vessels drawing 
more than twelve feet must anchor over two miles from the mouth of the 
river, which is blocked by a bar rarely covered with more than four fee t of 
water. 
