AGRICULTURE OF MALACCA* 
722 
Zamboanga*. 
Caraga. 
7,705 
90 977 
5,680 
4,3731 
Calamianes. 
13,905 
Total.. 
3,431,183 
721,033 
xne mariana isles .... 
The White population of Manila &c.,. 
The number of Tinguianes of the Cordilleras &c. 
The Chinese.. . f .. . 
.. 9,488 
Batanes. 
T A XQO 
Zamboanga. 
• * 
Total 3,652,394 
Augmentation in two years taken from the same table 290,234 
m ,r ■ 3,942,628 
xo this we may add at a very moderate computation for the 
numbers not taxed from various reasons and for the wild tribes of 
the interior of the islands.- -... 1,000,000 
nor Mmdanoa and Basilan moderately computed! 1,000,000 
Total 5,942,628 
Dn Medhurst’s Chinese Miscellany. 
We have received three numbers of this Miscellany, the pros¬ 
pectus of which we published some months ago. It is on the 
plan of the Bencoolen Miscellany; that is, each number is a single 
tract, and the Editor does not pledge himself to a regular periodical 
issue. 1 fie 1st number is « a Glance at the interior of China 
obtained during a journey through the Silk and Green Tea 
districts; the 2nd, is entitled. “The Chinaman abroad, or a desulto¬ 
ry account of the Malayan Archipelago by Ong-Tae-Hae the 
3rd is “on the Silk manufacture, and the Cultivation^ the Mul- 
berry, by Tseu-Kwang-Khe, a minister of state in China.” The 
1st and 3rd papers are full of valuable and interesting matter, 
but the most curious is the 2nd, which is a translation of a Chinese 
work on the Indian Archipelago. There is hardly a characteristic 
o tie Aichipelago that is not adverted to. The manners and 
characters of nearly thirty races native and foreign, useful and 
remarkable animals, natural productions, &c, are all briefly 
noticed. The whole account is jusf such a mixture of shrewd 
observation, credulity and superstition as we should have expected 
irom a Chinese. What fell under his own -eyes is in general 
f This is a misprint for Babianes and the number is probably mis¬ 
printed likewise but the mistake is insignificant 
t Both these statements are on the authority of Spanish gentlemen 
well acquainted with the Philipines. B 
