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cent, and the Aborigines, who then numbered 7,000, were 
a little over 4 per cent. 
At the 1871 Census the population had risen to 183,491 
an increase of 27,584 on the figures of the previous 
enumeration. Yellow Fever raged continuously in the 
colony from 1861 to 1866. The immigrants for the de- 
cennium reached the large number of 61,124 persons, 
composed of 10,130 West Indian Islanders; 1,533 
Madeirans ; 38,715 East Indians; 1,403 Africans and 
9,343 Chinese. The percentage composition of the 
people shews the effe6t of immigration conducted on 
such a magnificent scale, for I find that there were 
3*4 per cent Chinese; 17*8 East Indians; 7*2 West 
Indian Islanders, and 6 1*8 Creoles. The mortality must 
have been very high at this period to result in only an 
increase of 19,000 with such a large number of immi- 
grants, even after deducting the returned immigrants, 
the number of whom I find to have been 2,773. At the 
next Census in 1881, the figures showed a great im- 
provement. The population had risen to 252,186, an 
increase of 68,695 on the previous Census with an immi- 
gration for the ten years of 73,787, divided into the 
following. There were 12,837 West Indian Immigrants ; 
2,170 Portuguese; 57,887 East Indians and 903 Chinese. 
The returned immigrants numbered 8,879, so that some 
of the increase was due to the excess of births over 
deaths during the decennium. The effect of the con- 
tinued immigration is seen in all the results of this Census. 
There were only 59*2 per cent of Creoles, and the East 
Indians had risen to no less than 25-5 per cent. There 
were 17 Chinese; 27 Portuguese; 7*2 West Indian 
Islanders ; '5 Europeans, and 2' Africans only. 
