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so that they are hardly appreciable. The Calcutta 
coolies number 101,470 persons, divided into 31,122 
Creoles (16,366 males, 14,756 females) and Indian born 
70,348 (45,963 males and 24,385 females; ; 12,732 of these 
are given in the report as indentured to the Sugar 
Estates. The Creole Coolies form 19/6 per cent of the 
creole population and 29*5 per cent of the Coolie people. 
So that there are 11.1 per cent of creole Coolies to the 
total population with the important condition of having 
the sexes almost equal. The creole Coolie, as far as my 
experience goes, is a creole first and then a coolie. As 
a rule he has fair muscular development, being much 
better favoured in this respect than his father. He is 
intelligent and a law-abiding citizen. Further I am in- 
formed, and it is within my own knowledge, that he is 
more and more pushing other races out of the special 
work of estates. I am told he works better, more in- 
telligently, and is more to be depended upon than some 
of the other races. He himself wishes to become wealthy 
and is willing to do work to this end. In short he is 
ambitious and therefore in the future will play a larger part 
than he has done in the past in our social condition. 
My own impression on this matter is that if coolie immi- 
gration is maintained in the future on anything like the 
scale it has been in the past we are quite within a mea- 
surable distance of the time when our people shall be 
almost wholly East Indians. And if by any means more 
coolie women could be persuaded to accompany the 
men to this colony, this probability becomes almost a 
certainty. The same end might be reached by buying 
from the time expired immigrants, with land, their claim 
to a free passage to India, In the 1 881 Census there were 
