Note 8 — Chapter XLIV · THE PRIMORSK OR SEA-COAST PROVINCE.

These statistics are taken from the Government books, and they refer to the native population. The Almanack for 1880 gives to the province 76 populated places, and the number of the Russian inhabitants was handed to me at Nikolaefsk, from Government sources, as 20,000, made up of 10,000 naval and military, 1,200 Government officials, 1,800 townspeople, and 7,000 peasants. In the whole province in 1878 the number of (Russian) marriages was 223, excluding those of soldiers and convicts. The number of births was 1,322, of which 96 were illegitimate; and the number of deaths 545 males and 447 females, in all 992, giving a net increase of 330 to the Russian population.