. | 3,000,000
| | |
" " Nejd, Assir, and Hasa, most | | |
of them Wahhabites | ... | 5,000 | 4,000,000
| | |
" " Hejaz, of these perhaps | | |
10,000 Meccans | ... | 22,000 | 2,000,000
| | |
Negroes from Soudan | 2,000 | ... | 10,000,000(?)
| | |
" " Zanzibar | 1,000 | ... | 1,500,000
| | |
Malabari from the Cape of Good Hope | 150 | ... |
| | |
Persians | 6,000 | 2,500 | 8,000,000
| | |
Indians (British subjects) | 15,000 | ... | 40,000,000
| | |
Malays, chiefly from Java and Dutch | | |
subjects | 12,000 | ... | 30,000,000
| | |
Chinese | 100 | ... | 15,000,000
| | |
Mongols from the Khanates, included in | | |
the Ottoman Haj | ... | ... | 6,000,000
| | |
Lazis, Circassians, Tartars, etc. | | |
(Russian subjects), included in the | | |
Ottoman Haj | ... | ... | 5,000,000
| | |
Independent Afghans and Beluchis, | | |
included in the Indian and Persian | | |
Hajs | ... | ... | 3,000,000
|-----------------|------------
Total of Pilgrims present at Arafat | 93,250 |
Total Census of Islam |175,000,000

The figures thus roundly given require explanation in order to be of
their full value as a bird's-eye view of Islam. I will take them as
nearly as possible in