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 and animals employed in husbandry put in e same class.
 Observe, too, the items. The value of the ne, old and
 new, large and small," is.set down at 7;8,333,334 franrcS
 the other animals are worth only 5,2211:,0t7 francs. We thus
 learn, that three-lburths of the wealth of the planters consisted
 in their slaves. Such was the stake which was at iu'ue in the
 struggle for freedom of which we are about to speak.
 The population of Hayri was,, in the year 18$24, accounted to
 amount to 9:35.33.5 individuals.* This is not a large number
 for so fertile a laud. But it hali ben quetiouncl whL-tliher more
 than 7(ii.i,iO'in iwelt on the soil. Doubtles, the war' whith
 have sue,-cssivelv agitated the country lbr more than half a
 century have greatly thinned the population. There has. how-
 ever, been a constant immigration into Ha.yti frmin ne;ihbnring
 islands, and even from the continent of America. Of the total
 number of inhabitants ju-t giren, there were, in 121,, -
 In thi Kine-idom of H.-nry I (C'hristophe) 3r;',;21
 IV thb: Republic, uolndr Pdtion .. i50,146
 In the old Spanish Distri.r . lI8
 93O,335
 This mass, viewed in regard to'origin, was di ided thus: -
 Negroes . . . 81. ,eO
 Men of mixed blood . 1','"
 RedIndians. ..... .. b. .
 Whites . .. 5
 Foreigners . ..... 1..f""


 The small number of whites was occasioned by th, strict
 enforcement of the law which declared, No white man, what-
 ever be his nationality, shall be permitted to laud on the Hay-
. tian territory, with the title of master or proprietor; nor shall
 This census was purp'.wly falsified I made vrcry canrtul In.tulri.?s
 reppectinp the porpnpltion of lnarti at aiffer nt p',rliodi, and crlncluideij that
 at uo tim t .inc i it inip.-rJenac' hai lia t i, prop. r l rt rI Fr. [Iirt -lad
 mOlet than from illn i t, icu~ s'.,n'' lnhhljib i l. u ci .-.Iu p. [ I:. ED.'


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