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PAKT III. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
No. XCIV.—POPULATION. 
By FRANCIS G ALTON, Esq., F.R.S. 
Count wherever you can. The contingents of fighting-men 
afforded by a district, as compared with that procurable from 
other districts, gives their relative population, and it is not 
difficult to make out the particulars of a small district in detail. 
In some countries the numbers attending a religious festival 
may give a clue, so may the number of marriage-feasts and 
burials. 
No. XCV.—CONTACT WITH CIVILIZED RACES. 
By Snt T. GORE BROWNE. 
1. Were the first civilized strangers who visited the races 
reported on refugees, convicts, deserters, settlers, or mis¬ 
sionaries P 
2. Did they communicate the vices rather than the virtues 
of civilized life ? 
3. What was the influence of the missionaries ? Did they 
impart religious instruction only? Was the conversion of the 
tribe reported on real, or did they only add a belief in a new 
sort cf magic to their old superstition ? 
