[6] NOTE.—The author desires to acknowledge his obligation for a number of historical facts to The South American Republics, by Hon. Thomas C. Dawson, and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, of New York and London. APPENDICES I AREA AND POPULATION The statistics of area and population of the various states are widely divergent. One authority gives the total area as five million six hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred and fifteen square miles, and the figures of population range from fifteen million to twenty-two million. The figures herewith given are, in the writer’s opinion, the most reliable, although the estimates of population are too high by perhaps ten per cent. The total population probably does not exceed eighteen million. The last census in 1900 gave the total number of inhabitants as a little less than fifteen million, but it was considered very inaccurate. The following table gives the estimated population in 1909:— +-------------------+---------+----------+---------------+-----------+ | State | Area |Population| Capital |Inhabitants| +-------------------+---------+----------+---------------+-----------+ |Alagoas | 22,580| 744,193| Maceio | 40,000 | |Amazonas | 732,250| 286,269| Manao | 60,000 | |Bahia | 164,600| 2,427,59| Bahia | 205,000 | |Ceará | 40,240| 973,266| Fortaleza | 48,360 | |Espirito Santo | 17,310| 240,452| Victoria | 20,000 | |Goyaz | 288,470| 292,605| Goyaz | 13,475 | |Maranhão | 177,520| 572,304| São Luiz | 50,000 | |Matto Grosso | 532,550| 135,279| Cuyaba | 25,000 | |Minas Geraes | 221,890| 4,119,971|Bello Horizonte| 25,000 | |Pará | 443,790| 510,465| Pará (Belem) | 120,000 | |Parahyba | 28,850| 562,534| Parahyba | 25,000 | |Paraná | 85,430| 374,961| Curityba | 40,000 | |Pernambuco | 49,560| 1,350,391| Pernambuco | 120,000 | |Piauhy | 116,490| 383,205| Therezina | 20,000 | |Rio de Janeiro | 26,630| 1,061,418| Nictheroy | 40,000 | |Rio Grande do Norte| 22,190| 314,420| Natal | 23,000 | |Rio Grande do Sul | 91,250| 1,317,060| Porto Alegre | 90,000 | |Santa Catharina | 28,620| 367,113| Florianopolis | 30,000 | |São Paulo | 112,280| 2,612,878| São Paulo | 350,000 | |Sergipe | 15,090| 408,348| Aracajú | 25,000 | |Federal District | 540| 855,920|Rio de Janeiro | 800,000 | |Acre | 114,600| 70,000| | | | +---------+----------+ | | | |3,332,730|19,910,646| | |