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The numbers in each of the tribes mentioned in the preceding paper may be estimated as follows:
Hokien (including Ang Chun people.) | |
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Shopkeepers, such as those who sell rice and other articles by retail | 1,400 |
Id. sellers of cloth by retail. | 200 |
Id. sellers of crockery | 250 |
Gambier and Pepper dealers | 100 |
Petty traders | 750 |
Sago manufacturers | 500 |
Venders in the public market | 300 |
Boatmen | 700 |
Watermen | 250 |
Porters | 800 |
Fishermen | 200 |
Lime Burners | 100 |
Coolies employed in assisting masons | 700 |
Masons | 100 |
Itenerant venders | 100 |
Agriculturists | 2,000 |
Revenue peons and arrack and chandu preparers | 70 |
Boatmen employed in bringing earth & sand for buildng and other business of the kind | 230 |
Unemployed | 250 |
9,000 | |
Te Chu. | |
Shopkeepers, such as those who sell rice and other articles by retail. Id. sellers of cloth by retail. | 1,900 |
Gambier and Pepper dealers | 200 |
Id. planters | 10,000 |
Venders in the public markets | 300 |
Boatmen | 300 |
Fishermen | 600 |
Coolies employed in assisting masons | 100 |
Itenerant venders | 300 |
Agriculturists | 2,000 |
Unemployed | 600 |
Stone cutters &c. | 150 |
Shopkeepers in the country | 2,000 |
Seamen employed in Sampan Pukats | 360 |
Charcoal Burners | 140 |
Barbers | 50 |
19,000 | |
Malacca Chinese (descendants of Hokien immigrants) | |
Merchants and shopkeepers and their people | 300 |
Cash keepers and others employed by Europeans | 100 |
Householders employed variously | 300 |
Petty traders | 200 |
Agriculturists | 100 |
1,000 | |
Macao. | |
Shopkeepers such as those who sell rice and other arcles by retail. Ib. sellers of cloth by retail. | 350 |
Employed by Europeans and Chinese as house servants, coolies | 500 |
Gambier and pepper planters | 400 |
Tailors and Shoemakers | 400 |
Ship and boat builders | 400 |
Cabinet makers & Carpenters | 1,000 |
House Carpenters | 300 |
Wood cutters and sawyers | 1,000 |
Bakers | 200 |
Lime Burners | 250 |
Coolies employed in assisting masons | 500 |
Barbers | 200 |
Brick makers | 500 |
6,000 | |
Keh. | |
Tailors and shoemakers. | 400 |
Makers of wooden boxes | 300 |
Blacksmiths | 500 |
Goldsmiths | 100 |
Barbers | 100 |
Sawyers and wood cutters | 800 |
House builders | 1,000 |
Petty traders | 300 |
Id. in the country | 300 |
Persons employed in miscellaneous work | 200 |
4,000 | |
Hailam. | |
Shop servants, | 100 |
Servants employed in the country, | 600 |
700 |