Note 47 — Chapter I · NICARAGUA: BOUNDARIES, TOPOGRAPHY, LAKES, RIVERS, PORTS, CLIMATE, POPULATION, PRODUCTIONS, MINES, ETC., ETC.

General Miguel Gonzalez Sarabia, governor of Nicaragua in 1823, wrote a brief account of the province, which was published in Guatemala in 1824. He estimated the population of the province at that time, at 174,200, and gave it as his judgment that 70,000 were Indians, 70,000 Ladinos or mixed, and the remainder, or 34,200, whites. The latter he considered to be diminishing in numbers, and such, he adds, “is their general tendency.”—Bosquejo Politico Estadistico de Nicaragua, p. 8.