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estimated in the end of 1 842 at about 4,000 ; but any further 
details are not easily to be collected, as no regular census has 
been made by the Government. 
I do not pretend to eefimate the native population with 
any degree of accuracy ; but I am inclined to believe that 
the rough estimates hitherto made have been rather above 
than below the actual numbers. I only know of two cases 
in which an exact census has been taken. M r. Halswell took 
a census of the native population inhabiting Port Nicholson 
in 1841, and found its numbers to be 541. The E-ev. 
Richard Taylor counted 2,200 natives on the banks of 
the Wanganui river as far as Pipiriki, 80 miles from its 
mouth. 
From all the information that I can gather on the subject, 
I should calculate the native population inhabiting Cook's 
Strait and the banks of the rivers which flow into it to be about 
8,000, and the total of the native population of both islands to 
be considerably less than 100,000. 
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