ABSTRACT
It is very difficult to obtain even an approximate idea of the exact size and composition of the community. No official register of the names or numbers of the coloured men, their wives and children is available, and this is unfortunate, since without it generalizations on social or economic topics are apt to lack proportion. The difficulty is augmented, also, by the “floating” nature of much of the population, and as a house-to-house count was impracticable it is impossible to say accurately how many people the community comprised at the time of this investigation. From other particulars, however, it is possible to make with, probably, a reasonable degree of accuracy, a number of deductions with a general bearing on the demography of the district.
