The census counted 1,177 non-Pohnpeians on Ponape, 664 of them Mortlockese.

What happened

Riesenberg’s census counted 5,628 people on Pohnpei, 4,451 of them Pohnpeian. Most of the Mortlockese lived in the six villages on Sokehs Island, descendants of settlers whom German officials had moved to Pohnpei after typhoons from about 1906.