A VO Y A G E T O 
1779- much of this objeftion; the firft is, that the interior parts 
-v-w of the country are entirely uninhabited; fo that, if the 
number of the inhabitants along the coaft be known, the 
whole will be pretty accurately determined. The other is, 
that there are no towns of any confiderable fize, the habi¬ 
tations of the natives being pretty equally difperfed in fmall 
villages round all their coafts. It is on this ground that I 
Ihall venture at a rough calculation of the number of per- 
fons in this group of illands. 
The bay of Karakakooa, in Owhyhee, is three miles in 
extent, and contains four villages of about eighty houfes 
each, upon an average ; in all three hundred and twenty; 
belides a number of ftraggling houfes; which may make 
the whole amount to three hundred and fifty. From the 
frequent opportunities I had of informing myfelf on this 
head, I am convinced, that fix perfons to a houfe is a very 
moderate allowance ; fa that,, on this calculation, the coun¬ 
try about the bay contains two thoufand one hundred fouls . 
To thefe may be added fifty families, or three hundred 
perfons, which I conceive to be nearly the number em¬ 
ployed in the interior parts of the country amongft their 
plantations ; making in all two thoufand four hundred. 
If, therefore, this number be applied to the whole extent 
of coaft round the ifland, deducing a quarter for the un¬ 
inhabited parts, it will be found to contain one hundred 
and fifty thoufand. By the fame mode of calculation, the 
reft of the illands will be found to contain the following 
numbers: 
Owhyhee, 
