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from our European experience. An experiment on a larger 
sca.e, might indeed perhaps give a different result. Accord¬ 
ing to the Census of the Eastern part of Java taken in 1815 
the females exceed the males by about 4 per cent. In one 
district only, the eastern portion of Madura, there is a great 
preponderance of females who are to the males in the pro^ 
poition ol 110 to 100. I confess I am disposed to place some 
confidence in this return, from its going more into details 
than any other parts of the census, and from knowing that 
o w j* s Prepared by a most intelligent native chief, the late 
Panambahan or prince of Sumanap. The population to 
winch it refers amounted to 96,389 persons, all natives of the 
1S J C \i°^ M f du r a - ^ ma y be observed that the Javanese 
and other islanders are themselves unaware of any disparity 
existing in the proportional numbers of the sexes. 
1 U r /J 10 * lutldrt ; d forty-one women examined, seven 
° Vu 1 qo C i b T> n( ! c , h i Id «* Three on] Y b ore one child each, 
while 3J had had 10 children or upwards. Three had had 
each M children one had 15, and two had 16. The average 
for the whole 141 was 7.226. S 
The age of marriage mentioned in one heading of the 
statement means the age of puberty when both sexes are 
deemed eligible for matrimony. Of the 1019 children born 
aPPeaw ™at there died no fewer than 651 or 63 out of a 
hundred before the age of 14 or thereabouts. Of these nearly 
one-tenth were carried off by small-pox. In making their 
statements a woman would use such a significant expression 
as the following.—■" I had eleven children born to me, but I 
landed only three.” 
The last statement which I submit to the Society is drawn 
from a tabular view of the population of certain villages in 
t le locality already described, including some kampungs or 
quarters ot the town of Yugyakarta. The inquiry was con¬ 
ducted by myself personalty, with necessary native assistance, 
and extended over many months. It is confined to a single 
year, that m which it was made, 1815-16. The obvious 
reason for this restriction was that the treacherous memories 
o t ie natives could not be safely relied on for a longer time, 
than from the festival of one year to the same in the ensuing 
one-a period so well defined, and so short as to be little 
lable to error. The following is an abstract: 
Number of Villages. 
Amount of population .. .. 
Number of marriages within the year . , 
Number of births within the year . . , 
Number of deaths within the year . „ 
188 
40,688 
514 
1,691 
696 
