Note 83 — Chapter III · THE RACE FOR EMPIRE
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The number of colonists living in Spanish possessions varies greatly in estimates. DeLannoy thinks that it may have been 152,000 by 1574 (DeLannoy and Van der Linden, Histoire de l'Expansion Coloniale des Peuples Européens [Paris, 1907], vol. I, p. 414); while Leroy-Beaulieu puts it as low as 15,000 in 1550. De la Colonisation chez les peuples modernes (Paris, 1898), vol. I, p. 5.