[5] The proportion which the different sexes, castes, and conditions, &c. of the inhabitants of Lima bore to one another in the year 1818, may be learned from the subjoined summary taken from the census of Juan Baso, Oidor. +----------------+-------------+-------+---------------+----------------+ | Summary of Men | Summary of | Gen. | Summary of | Summary | | by Castes. | Men by | amt. | Women by | of Women | | | Wards. | of the| Wards. | by Castes. | | | | whole.| | | +----------------+-------------+-------+---------------+----------------+ |Secular |1st Ward 6841| | 7975 Ward 1st| 9455 Secular | | Spaniards 8406| | | | Spanish | | | | | | women. | | | | | | | |Priests and |2nd Id. 5882| 27,545| 6090 — 2nd| 506 Nuns. | | Friars 1331| | | | | | | | | | | |Mestizoes 2660|3rd Id. 6389| | 7420 — 3rd| 3262 Mestiza | | | | | | women. | | | | | | | |Indians 1561|4th Id. 3512| 26,553| 4756 — 4th| 1731 Indian | | | | | | women. | | | | | | | | |Cercado, | | | | |Free Negroes | the higher | | | 7715 Black and| | and Pardos 4220| part of 259| — | 312 Cercado | swarthy | | | the city | | | free | | | so called | | | women. | | | | | | | |Id. slaves 4705|In wards 4662| — | — | 3884 Id. | | | | | | slaves. | | ------| ------| ------|------ |------ | | 22,883| 27,545| 54,098|26,553 |26,553 | +----------------+-------------+-------+---------------+----------------+ To convey a more particular idea of the different races of people in Lima, as these are divided and subdivided, and change in colour by intermixing with one another, we shall add tables on the subject, given by Dr. Unanue, in his work titled “Observaciones sobre el clima de Lima.”