, CONTENTS. xi 



CHAPTEE IX. 



CURIOUS AND NOTEWORTHY CUSTOMS AMONG THE DIFFERENT TRIBES. 



PAOB 



Roads and travelling — Canoes and boats— Slavery — Ranks of soriety 

 — Hovas or Commoners — Andrians or Nobles — Royalty — Oaths 

 of allegiance — Royal property — A ilalagasy Kabary — Native 

 oratory — Occupations and modes of living — Handicrafts . 174-196 



CHAPTER X. 



CURIOUS AND NOTEWORTHY CUSTOMS AMONG THE DIFFERENT TRIBES 



— (continued). 



Houses, their structure and arrangement — The house as a compass 

 and sundial — Towns and villages — Fire by friction — Pottery and 

 substitutes for it — Kissing or nose-rubbing — Tattooing and other 

 adornments — j\Iodes of dressing the hair — Clothing — Use of 

 vegetable fibres for di-ess — Female adornment — Weapons . 197-216 



CHAPTEE XL 



CURIOUS AND NOTEWORTHY CUSTOMS AMONG THE MALAGASY TRIBES 



— (concluded). 



Circumcision observances — Brotherhood by blood covenant — Royal 

 ancestor-worship among the Sakalava — Tombs and funeral 

 rites . . . . ■ . . . . 217-242 



CHAPTER XIL 



RELATIONSHIPS, AND THE NAMES USED FOR THEM, AMONG 



THE PEOPLES OF MADAGASCAR, CHIEFLY THE HOVAS. 243-257 



CHAPTER XIIL 



NOTES UPON MALAGASY ART IN DECORATION AND MANUFACTURK 



Hova art : house decoration — Church adornment — Textile fabrics — 

 Straw plaiting — Metal work — Pottery — Betsileo art : Carving on 

 burial memorials — Houses and utensils .... 25S-266 



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