Islands Population Years Decrease Tahiti Group *175,000 1774 34,800 1910 140,200 Samoa Group *185,000 1768 46,000 1912 139,000 New Zealand *120,000 1840 49,776 1916 70,224 Hawaii Nei *230,800 1780 200,000 1804 26,000 1910 204,800 Marquesa, or *45,000 1804 Mendaña Group 35,000 1842 4,000 1910 41,000 Tonga Group *30,000 1880 17,500 1912 12,500 Cook Group *11,500 1880 8,400 1900 3,100 Wallis Group *8,000 1860 3,600 1912 4,400 Austral Group Tabuai *1,800 1875 1,000 1912 800 MELANESIA Fijii Group *194,000 1840 125,000 1906 69,000 —————————— ——————— TOTAL. *1,001,100 685,024 Sources of information for the Above Figures. Consular Reports of various Nations. Encyclopaedia Brittanica, American Edition, 1911. Century Dictionary and Encyclopaedia, American, 1912. Admiral Adam Ivan Krusenstern, (1770–1846). Admiral Bougainville, (1729–1811). Statistics collected by the Author. Units and tens are discarded in the above table of figures, 1st Census. Estimating population of Aboriginal races select the lowest totals. Estimating the Death Rate of Aboriginal races select the highest totals. POLYNESIA: (Greek, polus, many; nesos, island). MELANESIA: (Greek, melas, melanos, black: nesos, island). MICRONESIA: (Greek, mikros, small; nesos, island). [Illustration: HISTORICAL HAWAII A TEXT-BOOK HAWAIIAN ★ HISTORY FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS, PUPILS OF THE HIGHER GRADES] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. P. 14, The “Great mortality” table is obviously in error as per cent. should not exceed 100%. 2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 3. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 4. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers. 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of "The Flu", by A. Mouritz