The South-African crisis - pagina 16

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

12

CRISIS.

most pure and alcoholism has never seduced them. Their fecundity also

is

almost incredible.

Families of

not a very rare exception, and to

fifteen children are

have as many as ten

about the average.

is

Add

to

this that their longevity equals that of the Kussians,

and

you

the

find

will

explanation

truly

their

for

surprising increase.

Captain Percival in 1804 found only 60,000 persons of their

In 1866

111,451.

to

In 1822 this number had increased

race.

numbered not the

less

population

census of 1891,

than 187,439 persons

European

of is

*)

making a

in Natal,

must yet add to raised

increase

since

At present

origin, according to the

77,716 in the Free State

total of 784,358 souls.

this figure the whites of

land, of Griqualand West, of

number

2)

376,957 souls in Cape Colony alone,

285,270 in the Transvaal,

44415

whites at the Cape alone

the

sufliciently

Humpata ande

^)

We

Bechuannaspecially the

express the continued

to

according

Calculating

1891.

3)

to

proportions for the preceding decennial period,

e)

the this

would be at the rate of 2.60 per cent per

increase

annum,

so that a total of 900,000 souls will be quickly

On

reached.

this estimate the Boers

may be put down

at 520,000, the other nationalities together at 380,000.

^)

the. -J •")

Of which 15,000 were horsemen or

Cape"

Chase,

The

men

carrying arms. "Accoioit of

p. 273.

Handbook,

of the

p. Ill

^}v/?(s

annual,

p. 223,

first

a,ppendix.

p. 440. Slateuian^s yeariiook, 1899, p. 184.

puts the

number

*)

Slaats-alnianak, p. 30.

5)

Report by M. Aubert, inthe Moniteur

6)

Cape Argus

p.

400-403.

The

at 337,000.

officiel

da

toi)i))if'rce,iS^J6,i:).'J~.

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