IN MADAGASCAR. 



527 



Hindus, and especially to that of the inhabitants of the Malabar 

 coast. 



This civilization, in all its conditions, the Malays appear to have 

 transported to Madagascar, where they have formed, by intermixture 

 with the Negroes of Africa, two new races the Hovas, who still 

 preserve distinctly visible affinities with the Negroes properly so 

 called, and the Sakalaves, who approximate towards the Kaffirs. 



These two mixed races comprise in themselves several varieties, but 

 all bear the common denomination of Malagasy or Madecassy.* 



According to M. Maury, the populations of Polynesia depart the 

 more completely from the Malayan type as we advance in an east- 



* For information, as entertaining as it is valuable, respecting the history, people, and 

 products of Madagascar, see the Rev. "William Ellis's " Three Visits to Madagascar," and 

 M. Octave Sachot's " Madagascar et les Madecasses " (Paris, 1864). 



