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Around the World Volume 1-2 by Angelo Heilprin

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...of nearly 8,000,000 in the period of one hundred years, and of 1,700,000 in the last ten years. Of this number the Magyars comprise 7,426,730 souls, and the Germans 2,107,577, while the remainder is made up, in the order of numbers, of Croats and Serbs, Roumanians, Slovaks, Ruthenians, and Slovenians, besides some 220,000 of which no classification appears. It would seem that more than one-half of the population can neither read nor write, the greatest offenders in this direction being the Ruthenians, 87 per cent, of whom belong to the analphabetical category. In the region west of the meridian which marks the lower course of the Theiss, nearly all over six years of age can both read and write. Father Hue And His Narrative.--The doubts which have for a long time been associated with the accounts given by Father Hue of his remarkable journey across Mongolia and Tibet, and which had been accentuated by the Russian traveler Prjevalski, seem gradually to be losing force. Prince Henry of Orleans, who accompanied Bonvalot into the heart of Asia, has, in a work entitled ' Le Pire Hue et ses Critiques" published an elaborate defense of his countryman, joining sides with Richthofen, Loczy, Bell and Rockhill. It is claimed for Hue, and his associate, Gabet, that some of the officials of L' hassa still remember the advent of the two French missionaries within the walls of the forbidden city. How The Native Population Of InDia Live.--The last official census of India, which has recently been published under the authority of the Census Commissioners, gives as the total population (1890) of the Indian Empire 289,187,316, or about one-fifth of the population of the entire world, exceeding that of any single country with the exception of China. The increase in the ten...

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