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The numbers in each of the tribes mentioned in the preceding paper may be estimated as follows:
| Hokien (including Ang Chun people.) | |
|---|---|
| Shopkeepers, such as those who sell rice and other articles by retail | 1,400 |
| Id. sellers of cloth by retail. | 200 |
| Id. sellers of crockery | 250 |
| Gambier and Pepper dealers | 100 |
| Petty traders | 750 |
| Sago manufacturers | 500 |
| Venders in the public market | 300 |
| Boatmen | 700 |
| Watermen | 250 |
| Porters | 800 |
| Fishermen | 200 |
| Lime Burners | 100 |
| Coolies employed in assisting masons | 700 |
| Masons | 100 |
| Itenerant venders | 100 |
| Agriculturists | 2,000 |
| Revenue peons and arrack and chandu preparers | 70 |
| Boatmen employed in bringing earth & sand for buildng and other business of the kind | 230 |
| Unemployed | 250 |
| 9,000 | |
| Te Chu. | |
| Shopkeepers, such as those who sell rice and other articles by retail. Id. sellers of cloth by retail. | 1,900 |
| Gambier and Pepper dealers | 200 |
| Id. planters | 10,000 |
| Venders in the public markets | 300 |
| Boatmen | 300 |
| Fishermen | 600 |
| Coolies employed in assisting masons | 100 |
| Itenerant venders | 300 |
| Agriculturists | 2,000 |
| Unemployed | 600 |
| Stone cutters &c. | 150 |
| Shopkeepers in the country | 2,000 |
| Seamen employed in Sampan Pukats | 360 |
| Charcoal Burners | 140 |
| Barbers | 50 |
| 19,000 | |
| Malacca Chinese (descendants of Hokien immigrants) | |
| Merchants and shopkeepers and their people | 300 |
| Cash keepers and others employed by Europeans | 100 |
| Householders employed variously | 300 |
| Petty traders | 200 |
| Agriculturists | 100 |
| 1,000 | |
| Macao. | |
| Shopkeepers such as those who sell rice and other arcles by retail. Ib. sellers of cloth by retail. | 350 |
| Employed by Europeans and Chinese as house servants, coolies | 500 |
| Gambier and pepper planters | 400 |
| Tailors and Shoemakers | 400 |
| Ship and boat builders | 400 |
| Cabinet makers & Carpenters | 1,000 |
| House Carpenters | 300 |
| Wood cutters and sawyers | 1,000 |
| Bakers | 200 |
| Lime Burners | 250 |
| Coolies employed in assisting masons | 500 |
| Barbers | 200 |
| Brick makers | 500 |
| 6,000 | |
| Keh. | |
| Tailors and shoemakers. | 400 |
| Makers of wooden boxes | 300 |
| Blacksmiths | 500 |
| Goldsmiths | 100 |
| Barbers | 100 |
| Sawyers and wood cutters | 800 |
| House builders | 1,000 |
| Petty traders | 300 |
| Id. in the country | 300 |
| Persons employed in miscellaneous work | 200 |
| 4,000 | |
| Hailam. | |
| Shop servants, | 100 |
| Servants employed in the country, | 600 |
| 700 | |
