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to gain. Subsequent writers discourage the idea, and the latest that I have 
been able to consult (Griffiths) says the following of the connection :—“ The 
Malagasi bears some analogy to the Malay and the Amabic in the sound and 
signification of many of the words, and in the inflection of certain verbs ; but 
to say that on this account it is a dialect of either the Malay or the Arabic 
would be as unreasonable as to say that the Arabic is a dialect of Hebrew, or 
the Hebrew a dialect of the Arabic.” On reading this opinion the thought 
struck me that, as from my own personal knowledge the Malay has no affinity 
to Arabic, the author in comparing Malagasi to two dissimilar things 
might not have investigated either with the completeness necessary ; so, in 
taking up Ellis’ * Madagascar Revisited" and opening its pages at random, I 
was struck with the strong resemblance of the beautiful woodcut giving the 
portrait of a native, to the common cast of countenance found in the Indian 
Archipelago amongst the Bajow, or Sea Malays. A copy of this (Pl. I.) Iam 
enabled to show to the Society through the skill of Mr. Alexander McColl, 
. who has transferred it by the photo-lithographie process. Dipping further 
into the work I found almost every fifth word to have Malayan affinities, and 
coming to the capital, which I may take by way of example, I found it called 
Antananarivo, or the City of a Thousand Towns or Villages. Now, allowing 
for the differences of articulation, this is precisely the same as the Malay 
word Tana-saribu ; the word tanana in Malagasi, denuded of the prefix, being 
used in а more restricted sense than it is generally in Malay—though even 
here a Malay uses the word in a very restricted sense occasionally, as when 
he talks of his tana bindang, or rice plot ; tana campong, his village area, ete. 
Thus led on, I was induced to proceed with picking out the word fossils of 
the language, i.e., so far as the excellent grammar of the Rev. Mr. Griffiths 
afforded material Out of this work I collected 146 words, as given below, 
ninety-five of which proved to be Malayan, and eighty Malayo-Polynesian. 
Of the list of words twenty-nine only had no equivalents. Of course it would 
be improper were I not toremark that primary words alone were selected, and 
not the secondary or tertiary that are given in all dictionaries, Again, 
comparing the Malagasi words given below that are also found in Wallace’s 
and Earle’s comparative vocabularies of the Indian Archipelago, I found that 
of forty-seven words forty-two had their equivalents in one or other, or several, 
of the dialects and languages. Thus in the primary words—in the bases of 
their languages—close affinity is clearly indicated. 
Instancing particular words in Malagasi, it is interesting to examine their 
dispersion, Thus the word vorona, bird, is found in the Indian Archipelago 
slightly altered to burong, wrong, ete., but the most usual term is manok, manu, 
manik, mano, etc, The former term is African, the other Asian; and in 
examining the various vocabularies we see that one seems to have striven to 
