APPENDIX. 
APPENDIX I. 
THE ADAE. 
Besides the week of seven days, whicli were apparently- 
appropriated to seven persons, and gave names to every 
boy and girl, and which were also used by neighbouring 
tribes in their various languages, the Tshies have twelve 
months of thirty or thirty-two days, named according to 
fche seasons or the situation of the plantations, but these 
are different in different places, and are not in general use. 
More frequently time was reckoned by the Adae. This 
feast fell on every fortieth or forty-second day. The 
great Adae was always celebrated on a Sunday, the little 
Adae on a Wednesday. According to a peculiar mode of 
reckoning, the Adae began at different hours of the day. 
This manner of dividing the time is also found in other 
nations, as in Malabar in India, where the doctors reckon 
the " Mandalam " of forty days, divided into half and 
quarter circles, as a method of measurement : — 
ISth December, 1869, Sunday, Great Adae. 
11th January, 1870, Wednesday, Small 
22nd February, 
12tli March, 
5tli April, 
29th 
Sunday, Great 
Wednesday, Small 
Sunday, Great 
Wednesday, Small 
