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INDEX. 



Silkworms, 96. 



Sihanaka custom, curious, 255 ; religion, 302 

 superstition, 280. 



Sikldy or divination, 309. 



Silver work, native ingenuity in, 262. 



Singular number, dislike to the, 287. 



Sirabe, 32. 



" Sitting at the king's gate," 320. 



Skins, non-use of, 214. 



Slate, 32. 



Slavery, 162, 180, 182, 335. 



Slaves, class of, 181. 



Snake-traps, made by ants, 268. 



Sneezing, 285. 



Soares, Fernando, discovererof Madagascar, 3. 



Social habits, improved, 355. 



Society, ranks of, 182. 



Soldiers, or miaramila, 183. 



Sougomby, the, 275. 



Songs, loyal, 187. 



Sorcery a capital crime, 292. 



Spear and shield, the, 329. 

 Spear called T-si-tia-lainga, 19a. 

 Souls, transmigration of, 270. 

 Spiny and prickly plants, 82. 



" Spirit-bird," the, 274. 



"Spirit of evil," the, 295. 



Spirits of the dead, 312 



Spittle, the, medicinal virtue in, 286. 



Staff, the, a sign of office, 322. 



Stations, Mission, 361. 



Star-gazers, 311. 



Stories, sacred, 305. 



Stories, fabulous, 275. 



Ktraw-plait, artistic feeling shown in, 262. 



Stubborn chief, a, story of, 332, 333. 



Sudden death ascribed to witchcraft, 291. 



Sugar-cane, 89. 



Superstitions connected with birds, 274, 275 ; 



with, death, 290, 291 ; popular, 267. 

 Superstitious practices, rise of, 339. 

 Symbolic acts, 332. 



Tabooed customs, 288, 294. 



Tabooed or Fady words, 150, 168. 



Takatra, the, 274. 



Tamarind, the, 78, 278. 



Tamatave, 143. 



Tanala altar, a, 305, 306. 



Tanala superstition, 28 r. 



Tanala tribe and country, 107, 128, 215, 221, 



237- 

 Tandr&y, 132. 



Tangem-boay ordeal, the, 284. 

 Tangena tree, 73. 



Tangena or poison ordeal, 140, 281, 282, 283. 

 Tankarana tribe and people, 26, 179. 

 Tankay or Bezanozano, 129. 

 Tandsy, 203, 223. 

 Tatao custom, 289. 

 Tattooing, 209. 

 Teeth, loss of, 285. 

 Thanksgiving, sacrifices of, 303. 

 Threshing-floors, Malagasy, 335. 

 Time, division of, 279 ; mode of reckoning, 



336- 

 Times, lucky and unlucky, 279. 

 Tobacco, 95. 

 T6kan-dia, the, 275. 

 Tomb, family, of prime minister, 260. 

 Tombs and burial customs, 225, 330. 

 Tonic aol-fa system, introduction of, 364. 



Toothache, 285. 



Towns and houses, 205, 329, 330. 



Toy, Rev. R., quoted, 268. 



Trade, increase of, 354. 



Trades and occupations, 195. 



Tradition as to Malagasy origin, 121. 



Traditions of the Vazlmba, 307, 308. 



Training schools, 365. 



Trandraka or tenrec, 44. 



Translation of the Pilgrim's Progress, 347. 



Transmigration of souls, the, 270. 



Traveller's tree, 91. 



Trees, height and size of, 71. 



Trees and plants, sacred, 277 ; fetish, 306. 



Tsiafak6mby (tree), 82. 



Twelve, a lucky number, 288. 



Umbrella, royal, 186. 

 Ungulata, 46. 

 Unlucky days, 279, 

 actions, 287. 



280 ; numbers and 



Variegated leaved plants, 80. 

 Viizlmba, the, 135, 216, 307, 308. 

 Vegetable foods, 86 ; exports, 99. 

 Vegetation of coast, 71. 

 Vegetation of interior, 81. 

 Venetian maps of Madagascar, 16. 

 Vezo (trio*,), 126. 

 Village churches, 363. 

 V6av6ntaka, 72. 

 Vokoka ordeal, the, 284. 

 Volcanic reginn, 27. 

 Voneuina, the, 278. 



Wakb, C. S., 103, 243. 



Wallace, Alfred, 39, 45, 47, 48, 54, 66, 96, 105, 



116, 117. 

 Wall-painting in country church, 261. 

 War, Christian influence in, 357. 

 Wasps, 61. 



" Wator in the nose," 285. 

 Waterfalls, 24. 



Watershed of Madagascar, 24. 

 Water-spnto or mermaid, 308. 

 Weapons, native, 216, 329. 

 Weaving of coloured clutlts, 261, 262. 

 Weeping for the dead, 316. 

 Widows, curious custom regarding, 255. 

 Wisdom of Queen Ranavalona, 333, 334. 

 Witchcraft and charms, 292 ; detection of, 



282. 

 Wives, cruel treatment of, 255. 

 Words, fady, 150, 169, 171 ; obsolete, 152 ; 



French, 152; English, 152; Arabic, 154; 



history in, 155-157; poetry in, 157-160; 



morality, 160-162 ; for religious worship. 



162-164 I onomatopoetic, 164 ; connected 



with royalty, 169. 

 Worship of ancestors, 226 ; of idols, 297-301 ; 



Christian, customs connected with, 344,345. 



Tamis, 88. 



Yule, Colonel, 55. 



Zahana, the (Bignonia articulata), 82, 277. 



Zahitra (raft), 77, 178. 



Zaza Hova (slave.-.), 182. 



Zaledz, an ancient name of Madagascar, 2. 



Z6mba (sacred house), 226. 



Z6ro firar&zana (sacred corner), 199. 



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