76 STATISTICS OF TIIE POPULATION Of JAVA. 
The preceeding tabic has been compiled from the newest census-' 
of the different residencies, to which access has been kindly given 
in the? course of rav journey through Java in 1846. Most of the* 
lists contain the numbers of the census of 184*3. That of the 
Residency ot Bage’en only is for 1S43. The accuracy of the 
numbers is judged differently by the local authorities of the dif¬ 
ferent residencies. Generally it may be considered that in none of 
the residencies are the numbers stated too high. In many they 
are certainly too low. The population of the Residency of Ba- 
gelen, no census of which has been taken during the last three 
years, may cestainly now be reckoned to amount to /60,000, 
There does not exist any regular statement of the census of the 
Residency of Surakarta, but it may be foretold, that the improvements 
in the internal government of this populous residency planned and 
already partly put in operation, will speedily admit of a census, 
the result of which will probably be a figure of more than 800,000 
souls. This i know respecting one of the greatest residencies of Java, 
that an exact nominal census of some districts gave a number near¬ 
ly one half higher than the figure of t':e negligent reckoning of 
the year before. We may confidently believe that at. present the 
true number of the population of Java exceeds 10,000,000.—• 
About 30 years ago the number, according to Raffles, was scarcely 
4,605,270, and thus not one half of the present. It is scareely 
necessary to mention here, that the inhabitants of the Western 
residencies of Java are for the greater part Sundanese, those of 
middle Java proper Javanese, those of the Eastern residencies for 
the greater part Maiurese. The military are partly European, 
partly Africans, partly Javanese, Madurese and Bugis. In the 
residencies of Batavia, Samarang, Bagelen, Djocjocarta, Madmen 
and Surabaya are the strongest garrisons. In the assistant re¬ 
sidencies of Tagal, Pekalongan, Japara and Rembang, there are 
no troops. The particular statements of the population of the- 
different residencies will be inserted in following numbers of the 
Tijdschrift. 
