CONTENTS. 
Chapteb. Page. 
I, The country and people 9 
II. Towns, locality and description 11 
III. Houses, how furnished 13 
IV. Barras 15 
V. Food 17 
VI. Cooking, eating, bathing 19 
VII. Dress 22 
VIII. Their sleeping fixtures 24 
IX. Labor, farming, manufactures, trades 26 
X. War 31 
XI. Amusements 32 
XII. Their physical structure 35 
XIII. Dispositions, taste for music 38 
XIV. Deceptions 40 
XV. Evangelization, its difficulties 43 
XVI. Languages 46 
XVII. Marking time, counting, etc 48 
XVIII. Etiquette 52 
XIX. Ancient customs 55 
XX. Laws, government 57 
XXI. Oaths, currency 60 
XXII. Matrimony, abuse of women 62 
XXIII. Funeral ceremonies, witchcraft 70 
XXIV. Theology, devil-worship 76 
XXV. Gregrees 81 
XXVI. Creation of man 89 
XXVII. Future state 92 
XXVIII. Slavery, slave-trade 95 
XXIX. Purrow-bush society 100 
XXX. Condition and wants of the people 104 
XXXI. Encouragements to labor 106 
XXXII* Tho vicious influence of the whites...............................^ Ill 
