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Identifier: voyagetocochinch00barr (find matches)
Title: A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation
Year: 1806 (1800s)
Authors: Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848
Subjects: Voyages and travels Tswana (African people)
Publisher: London, T. Cadell and W. Davies
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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^ the doors andwindows large. Most of the wood Avork and the furniturewithin are painted of a light chocolate brown, and all themouldings are gilt. The ground floors are flagged withsmooth blue stones or square brown tiles which, being fre-quently washed in the course of the day, communicate arefreshing and an agreeable coolness to the lower apartments. From a register that is kept of the taxable dwellinghouses in the city and suburbs of Batavia, it appears thatthere are 7
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THE ISLAND OF JAVA. 177 Houses. Within the walls - - . , I993 In the south suburbs - - _ _ 508 In the suburbs near the Rotterdam gate - • - 732In the suburbs near the Utrecht gate, chiefly inhabited by Javanese and free Malays - - - 76O In tlie Chinese town on the western side - - 1277 Making in the whole 5270 Which, together with the villages and villas within a circuitof ten miles round Batavia, contain a population of about116,000 souls, consisting of East India Companys servants of every descrip-tion 800, and with their families - - 3,300Burghers or free citizens 1138, and with their families _____ 5,660 Javanese and free Malays _ _ _ 68,000 Chinese - - - - . _ 22,000 Slaves _ - - - - 17,000 Total 115,960 But the total population within the extent of the govern-ment of Batavia is reckoned at 150,000 souls; that of all theother Dutch settlements on Java collectively at 230,000;and of the whole island, which, hoAvever, is little betterthan a guess, at 2,000,000. f 178 THE ISLAND O

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