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Table of the several Ports in China with Estimated Chinese Population of
each Port and Provincecontinued.
Port. Province.
Name, Population. Name. Population.
*Wuchow Nanning Lungchow Mengtzu Szemao ... *Tengyueh 59,000 40,000 15,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 Kwangsi Yunnan (Other provinces ; Shansi, Shensi,Kansu,! Honan, Kweichow) ... Total ...... 8,000,000 8,000,000 55,000,000
438,214,000
Note.The above estimates are adopted from the customs returns with the
exception that the figures 16,000,000 there given for the population of the
southern province of Manchuria have here been taken for the population of
the Manchurian provinces, for which they are the usually accepted figures.
Chinese census returns are not to be trusted and foreign estimates vary widely.
Thus in regard to the population of Szechuan, appearing above as 79,500,000,
the customs returns append the footnote"Estimated by A. Hosie (1904) at
45,000,000." The population of the city of Canton is estimated in the customs
report...”
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“...China, suggests
to His Majesty's Consul there that such engines are suitable for other
Chinese cities and might find an extended sale if pushed.
Motor boats.More than one of the Consuls in the southern ports
indicates that there are great possibilities for the sale of motor boats
for navigating the Canton delta and inland waterways. Three large
motor passenger boats, all under the British flag, were trading between
Wuchow and Nanning in April, 1909, one being quite new, and a fourth
was being built for the same run. These boats were specially built to
get up to Nanning at almost any state of the river, and can be trimmed
to draw as little as 18 inches. Two American motor boats were
recently purchased by the Canton-Hankow Railway for use at Canton,
and the Chinese Admiral there had a motor launch built for him at
Hong-Kong as a yacht.
Sundries.As regards sundries, many articles in the lists given
under imports indicate a growing adoption of European tastes and
customs. This is specially marked...”
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